Grammy & Latin-Grammy nominated Daymé Arocena presents a celebration of Afro-Cuban Rumba, a foundation of Cuban musical culture. SHOW DETAILS 7:00 PM – Doors open for...
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 Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Ibero-American and Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated weekly playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Ibero-American and Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz...
Featured photo of Janio Abreu by Danilo Navas – 35 Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza 2020 – Teatro Martí, La Habana. This month we present a playlist...
There are few musicians more eminently qualified to revisit changüí – that unique Afro-Cuban dance-narrative form – than the inimitable contrabassist Yelsy Heredia. A native of...
Editor’s note: Real Project won a Cubadisco 2021 Award for this album, GES [Grupo de Experimentación Sonora] in the category of Antología y versiones [Anthology and...
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque has evolved – in less than five years – from a project to support and honor the new generation of young women...
When Jane Bunnett introduced a young Afro-Cuban vocalist Daymé Arocena as the first led singer of her seminal all-woman ensemble Maqueque we knew someone special had...
Don’t let the title of this third recording by Jane Bunnett and (the new incarnation of) Maqueque fool you. Indeed the musicians of this magnificent all-woman...
The curtain rose on all the polite decorum of Koerner Hall and when the evening exploded it was as if we were swept up in the...
An ode to Santería’s god of the crossroads, ‘Eleggua’ combines sacred Afro-Cuban rhythms with horns-driven, steady grooving jazz. Filmed in Daymé’s home of Havana, it sees...
The rise and rise of Daymé Arocena is quite the Cinderella story, sans the proverbial ‘glass slipper’. She performed for some time in Joaquin Betancourt’s big...
With the release of ABUC it has become eminently clear that everything Roberto Fonseca has been writing and performing, and capturing on disc has been leading...
When the album Jane Bunnett and Maqueque was released in 2014 it seemed to suggest that the celebrated soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett, already at...