It is not easy – by any stretch of imagination – for a drummer to restrain his instrument from taking over the musical soundscape thereby making...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album The Pacific Mambo Orchestra takes its name from the form of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga group Arcaño y...
After years of leading the acclaimed octet Brian Andres & the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, the Bay Area-based drummer felt the time was ripe to liberate the...
In the sonic scheme of things – not to get too wrapped up in similarities and differences between the sound of El Barrio and the music...
You can always count on Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel to put on a show worthy of an award. Whether this will happen with...
The title of this fantastic and intoxicating album is a dead giveaway. La Clave del Gumbo bestraddles the two not-so-disparate worlds of Cuba...
It matters not on which coast music is made in that idiom conveniently referred to as Latin Jazz, when the music has the kind of visceral...