It has been a long time, ten years to be exact, since Paquito D’Rivera last graced the stage at the Miner auditorium in the SF Jazz...
There is one aspect of Miguel Zenón and his music that has an enormous impact on the ear, and that is the sound he extracts from...
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...
The most remarkable aspect of the music of Pablo Ablanedo is the compositions themselves. As an artist Mr Ablanedo has a prodigious gift for sonic architecture....
This album was made at the time after Paquito D’Rivera had inherited what was left of Dizzy Gillespie’s seminal United Nation Orchestra and just before the...
Following his success with his solo album Live in London Michel Camilo returns to revisiting his music on a very large palette – his first big...
*Editor’s Pick – Album of the month – Armando Manzanero is 80 years old now. But he has been practicing his craft since the age of...
Nora la Bella may not be the only recording where an operatic soprano has made a crossover from the classical realm into music of another idiom...
Mates by Diego Urcola The stories of tea and its discovery—depending upon which part of the world they come from—are delightfully apocryphal. But the taking of...
Diego Urcola’s is a voice that remained somewhat hidden—certainly tucked away—for two decades in Paquito D’Rivera’s quintet. And then there was the subdued role he played...