At the end of October and the beginning of December 2022, the San Francisco Bay Area had two special occasions of music from percussion master John...
The First Annual EL MUNDO DEL PIANO LATINOAMERICANO Piano Festival Debuts at Klavierhaus in NYC, March 10-12, 2023. 10 Concerts by New York’s Elite Jazz &...
A Note From Elio Villafranca: Growing up in Cuba, I saw how different religions are intertwined with the cultural fabric of the country. In many of...
The culture and religion of Cuba’s Arará people blooms from the bitter soil of slavery. Originating from Benin (then Dahomey), the kidnapped Arará of the 16th...
Live Performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s intimate jazz lounge, Dizzy’s Club in New York City Thursday January 13, 2022 at 7:30 pm ET and 9:30...
Concert Postponed The performances of Celebrating Chick Corea scheduled for January 13th and 14th of this week have been rescheduled to Friday, April 15 & Saturday,...
July 17th Debut Release with All-Star Band! Featuring: Christian McBride, Elio Villafranca, Eric Harland, Doug Beavers, Luisito Quintero, Román Filiú & Luques Curtis! Honduran/Spanish singer, songwriter...
In the newly-crowded world of Afro-Caribbean music, where instrumentalists have always reigned supreme, the singularity of the composer is suddenly in the limelight. We are not...
World Premiere of Elio Villafranca’s Don’t Change My Name Free Concert – May 28, 2019 – 6 pm to 7 pm Rain Date – June 3,...
2018 was a very prolific year in terms of music being released. It was a year of excellency, in terms of great new music being created....
There has always been a healthy restlessness to Elio Villafranca. When I spoke to him in February 2015 he was about to debut a new suite...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album The record package itself for Cinque is modest, but oddly impressive; its black cover has the title and Mr Villafranca’s name...
Back by extremely popular demand, Nuevo Jazz Latino returns to The Appel Room Friday, November 3, 2017 and Saturday, November 4, 2017. 7:00 and 9:30 pm...
Cuban Jazz Artist Elio Villafranca To Headline At Aaron Davis Hall ‘Cuba – Senegal: Letters to Mother Africa II,’ acclaimed pianist-composer’s ode to Cuba and Africa,...
The year 2015 has seen two monumental musical works where Afro-Caribbean music collides with Jazz: The first is Elio Villafranca’s suite, Cinque which was premiered at...