Bronxites and New Yorkers love their holiday traditions. Holiday Jazz & Latin Jazz Parranda celebrates those traditions, keeping them alive by bringing communities together. Grammy Award-nominee...
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....
Tito Puente, often referred to as the “King of Latin Music” or “El Rey,” was highly influential and one of the most important figures in the...
About a decade ago, Alma Records’ founder and producer Peter Cardinali shared a clutch of recordings he had produced with me over the years. Among them...
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....
Cuban alto saxophonists playing Afro-Cuban music – even Black American Music in the Afro-Cuban idiom – are well known. The best-known contemporary players of that instrument...
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....
Pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa has signed with Blue Note Records and today [Aug 25] is releasing his striking label debut Timba a la Americana, a...
Somehow, I suspect that Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer [the two are joined at the musical hip] never doubted that Maqueque, this fiery, spirited all-woman Afro-Cuban...
Camila Cortina Bello is a pianist, educator, musicologist and composer. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1988, she has taken the stage in her home country and...
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 36th edition of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival has come and gone. For me, the jazz festival signifies the official start of summer and it’s...
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....
After nine years of work, Kathryn Golden was finally able to screen her documentary film SANTOS: Skin to Skin and it was definitely worth the wait....
The close creative partnership between the inimitable Argentinian vocalist Roxana Amed and the intrepid New York-based composer and pianist Frank Carlberg is immediately heard in the...