Recorded on January 31 and February 1, 2022 at The Samurai Hotel recording studio, Queens, New York. To be released on January 27, 2023. Born in San...
In the words of bandleader Jan Kus, ‘Moving Up’ is a song about optimism and determination: “This song is a sort of Slavo-Rican anthem. It’s about...
It might seem easy to be mesmerised and swept away by the ceaseless dancing of Puerto Rican music from one odd time signature to another. And...
Gabriel Vicéns has a vivid and idiosyncratic affinity for the guitar as can be heard on Days, a disc that spans what might seem like many...
The 2014 edition of the Heineken Jazz Festival was a mix of music palettes starting with a familiar face to jazz aficionados in Puerto Rico, Venezuelan...
“Extracts of a Desire,” co-produced by Miguel Zenón and dedicated to his father Ramón A. Suazo, who died in 2012, certainly does not sound like a...
It is hard to believe just by listening to “Point in Time” that Gabriel Vicéns just graduated two years ago from the Music Conservatory of Puerto...
Sammy Morales has been for years, one of the most respected musicians in the Puerto Rico music scene, and a bassist with vast experience playing with...
The name of the group says it all, the music of bassist Joan Torres’s All is Fused contains a perfect fusion of all Torres influences, Jazz,...
Three days of concerts with true masters of the Puerto Rican Jazz scene. That was the offering of the first Interamerican University Jazz Festival. A fest...
Artículo y Fotografías: Wilbert Sostre En octubre 15 del 2009 tuve la oportunidad de visitar IL’ Jazz Club en su localización original, la Avenida Ponce de...