When Roxana Amed released her debut album Ontology, it was clear that a musician of prodigious gifts had been hiding in plain sight and that album...
With the spectacularly intriguing album Cantar the drummer, composer, pedagogue and – now in one fell swoop – a out-and-out songwriter as well, Dafnis Prieto makes...
There is a segment in the short, documentary film “Regresar – Back in Cuba” (2019) where Dafnis Prieto says to a contingent of students, “When I...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
The longevity and the durability of the musical relationship between Paquito D’Rivera and Chucho Valdés give a freedom and flexibility to these performances on I Missed...
You can now pre-order the upcoming album I Missed You Too! that reunites Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera. You get 1 track now (streaming via the...
After kicking off their Reunion Tour in San Juan, Puerto Rico [on May 29], at the Mastercard Jazz Fest, Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera get ready...
In this special collaboration poised to be a top release of 2022, GRAMMY-winning Cuban-born drummer, composer, bandleader, and 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Dafnis Prieto unites with...
For a limited time, medici.tv offers a free video replay of La Creación, Chucho Valdés‘ new work for big band, Afro-Cuban percussion and vocals. Performed with the...
As the follow-up to his GRAMMY-winning big band album, Back to the Sunset, which DownBeat called “one of the best recordings of the year,” Cuban-born drummer,...
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...
A review of the book by Dafnis Prieto, entitled Rhythmic Synchronicity – Individual and Collective Drumming Skills: A rhythmic course for non-drummers Anyone who has heard...
“That Dafnis Prieto has undertaken an epic musical voyage is clear from the music on this disc. Back to the Sunset, is the culmination of a...
Continuing Banner Year in 2018/19, Dafnis Prieto Big Band Earns Grammy Nomination 2018/19 is shaping up to be an extraordinary year for Cuban-born drummer, composer, bandleader,...
That Dafnis Prieto has undertaken an epic musical voyage is clear from the music on this disc. Back to the Sunset, is the culmination of a...