Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have developed a worldview that has come...
There is something about the great Cuban chanteuse, Omara Portuondo that bears comparison with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington or – more particularly, perhaps – Billie...
From January 14 to 19, 2020, the 35th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival is being held in Havana and Santiago de Cuba, featuring numerous...
Straight out of Havana, Cuba comes Orquesta Akokán – a blazing presentation of deeply soulful mambo reminiscent of Benny Moré and banda gigante of the 1940’s...
The year “1958” in Havana ‘58 by Bahama Soul Club has rather risqué connotations – raising the spectre the dying days of the Batista regime in...
The 29th Festival Jazz Plaza 2013 will take place in Havana from December 19th to 22nd, and it will be devoted to Bebo and Chucho Valdés,...
The title of this record – Bach in Havana – should not come as a surprise, after all there is a yet-to-be-fully-discovered European Baroque and Classical...