Tag: Edmar Castañeda
Gregor Huebner: Los Soñadores
To listen to the voice of The Dreamers struggling against a manic administration in the 2019 White House is not too much to ask...
TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2017 Headliners
From a vocal powerhouse to a piano virtuoso, a jazz supergroup to one of the newly minted stars in jazz. Headliners confirmed to appear...
Hector Martignon’s Banda Grande: The Big Band Theory
Editor's Pick · Album of the Month ·
Big Bands are an endangered species. So it is with great excitement that one welcomes Hector Martignon’s...
Samuel Torres Group: Forced Displacement
Drums. They were not quite the first instrument, but even so much as a scatological suggestion of sound can quicken the blood; and their...
The Offense of the Drum Wins Grammy
Harlem, NY -- Tuesday, February 10, 2015 -- The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance is thrilled to announce the GRAMMY® win for Arturo O'Farrill and...
New Jazz Frontiers at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Cuban flutist, Orlando “Maraca” Valle, Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda, Venezuelan pianist Ed Simon, U.S. born bassist Luques Curtis and...
New Jazz Standards and New Jazz Frontiers
New York, NY – Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Appel Room – On December 19 & 20, ten of the most original and distinctive...
NYC: October Concerts at Jazz Standard
The Jazz Standard in New York City presents some exciting concerts in October 2014: Romero Lubambo Quartet, Edmar Castañeda World Ensemble, Richard Galiano Quintet...
Arturo O’Farrill and ALJO: The Offense of the Drum
It has been authoritatively stated that Chico O’Farrill was one of the most important composers and big band arrangers and conductors in the idioms...
World Premiere of “Afro Latin Jazz Suite”
The Legendary Apollo Theater Commissions the World Premiere of GRAMMY® Award-Winning Pianist Arturo O'Farrill's "Afro Latin Jazz Suite" Featuring The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra,...
2014 PR Heineken Jazz Fest Report
The 2014 edition of the Heineken Jazz Festival was a mix of music palettes starting with a familiar face to jazz aficionados in Puerto...
Trumpeter Diego Urcola Presents: Mates – A Collection of Inspired Duets
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...
Barquisimeto International JazzFest 2013
Venezuela will host another edition of the Barquisimeto International Jazz Festival. The city of Barquisimeto, province of Lara, will celebrate the eighth edition of...
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Turns 10!
The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra to Celebrate Historic 10th Anniversary Season with Special Program at Symphony Space, January 20 & 21
January 20 Benefit Concert...
Hector Martignon: Second Chance
In a literal world the music on Second Chance would simply represent “B” sides of music that pianist, Hector Martignon has played in the past. In reality they are anything but that. It is here that Martignon has provided wicked twists to all the music he has played before—he uses the term “devilish,” which in Spanish is a word fraught with meaning. The word diabólico might be infinitely more appropriate as it has fangs and breathes a fire [...]
