The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Jazz, Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz...
In 2025, Amsterdam-based band Estrella Acosta & Esquina 25 celebrate their 20 years of playing together! They will be touring to commemorate this anniversary and would...
In mid-2020, Junior Santos, a Dominican percussionist living in Canada, contacted me to inform me that he would soon be presenting his album ConPambiche, which fuses...
I wanted something very special for the publication of our first Jazz en Dominicana: The Interview Series in 2024. When I was preparing the list of...
Some of the most accomplished musicians are rarely aware of their contributions to the continuum of the art that often sustains them. This – more often...
Existencial Intensities, a Connector Records release by pianist, composer, arranger Sebastian Schunke was nominated for the prestigious Cubadisco Awards (2024) in the International Co-Production category. As...
Marlon Simon and The Nagual Spirits return with the ambitious new album On Different Paths, blending a myriad of cultural and musical traditions. A Truth Revolution...
Shortly after starting the live jazz venue Jazz en Dominicana in Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo, our percussionist friend Julio “Julito” Figueroa visited us accompanied...
At The Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland, California on May 26th, Roger Glenn’s Latin Jazz Ensemble showered those assembled with a heaping helping of great music....
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, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
The music of Africa – music played in Africa by African people, or those who they choose to allow into their inner circle – is not...
It seems that while no one was looking – or rather, while everyone in the world was looking to the musicians of Cuba and Puerto Rico...
In the vast landscape of jazz and Latin music, where innovation and tradition coalesce, Papo Vázquez emerges as a virtuoso trombonist whose music not only transcends...
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...