This month on The Latin Side of Jazz we feature music with the following artists: Alonso González & Jazz Latino, Kenny Garrett, Enrico Rava, Alfredo Rodríguez...
A fantasy of my own making: Truth be told, the Cubans and French have not got together to and create a wonderful musical take – tongue...
CUBADISCO 2021 WINNER · JAZZ CATEGORY All that is unusual and unexpected about this recording – even before you get to listen to a note of...
A fierce energy leaps out of the opening notes of Mama Ina, the exquisitely-crafted debut album by the prodigiously-gifted bassist Gastón Joya. It is the song...
Harold López-Nussa is a dynasty not only in Cuba, and ever since Ninety Miles (Concord, 2011), a recording that was facilitated by vibraphonist Stefon Harris, trumpeter...
The rise and rise of Daymé Arocena is quite the Cinderella story, sans the proverbial ‘glass slipper’. She performed for some time in Joaquin Betancourt’s big...
In 2010 the BBC Library released tapes of a 1995 Irakere concert in London. Imprinted on record by the Beeb three years after the release of...
To perceive the new proclivities of the Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa is to trace his seemingly mystical and musical voyage unto the recording he calls New...
With his roots in both Cuba and France, this thrilling young pianist displays an impressive maturity, which at merely thirty years old, will no doubt guarantee...
Cuba’s foremost pianist Chucho Valdés – winner of five Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards – has developed a brand new repertoire. Boasting a new...
The artistic goldmine that is Cuba continues to give up its riches. Even before Machito was “discovered” by Dizzy Gillespie (and much later, Gonzalo Rubalcaba) there...