Maestro Hendrik Meurkens isn’t just an acclaimed artist, whom we have all come to admire. He’s a man brimming with incandescent ideas which manifest into musical...
This month on The Latin Side of Jazz we feature music with the following artists: Pepe Rivero y Ángela Cervantes, Hendrik Meurkens, Yuvisney Aguilar, Alex “Apolo”...
The most striking aspect of the music of Hendrik Meurkens has always been the refined elegance of its melodies. This has always been carried forward into...
Three things occupy the mind of Roger Davidson: spirituality, the romance of music, and Brasil. This might not necessarily be in that order but certainly Oração...
To Gabriel Espinosa the Mexican-born bassist-turned-vocalist the essence of emotion is nothing if it cannot be transmigrated across the musical topographies that separate North and South...
The rhythmic intricacies of Brasilian music are just one aspect of that metaphor. Then there is that beautiful concept of a feeling called alegria. One cannot...
Stories of Stéphane Grappelli meeting anyone in Latin America may be apocryphal but those of Federico Britos doing so are certainly not. Nor is...
The concept of a kind of Rio de Janeiro/ New York mash-up—Copa Village—as it is called might not be anything new. Many years ago Antonio Carlos...
The act of singing may be described as producing musical sounds with the voice to augment regular speech, by the use of both tonality and rhythm....
Hendrik Meurkens and Gabriel Espinosa have established a relationship that seems to allow them to make recordings as if they have known each other for years....
Trombone choirs are few and far between. Good trombone choirs even less so and great ones almost non-existent. Some of the finest choirs...
Hendrik Meurkens has a knack for coining words. It is almost as if he sees the word as part of a lyrical line which he composes...
Masha Campagne has taken a giant leap on the road to establishing herself as a pre-eminent singer with a penchant for sensuous vocalastics with her sophomore...
Hendrik Meurkens is listening to music. His keen ears are multi-tasking as he engages in a conversation with LJN Editor Danilo Navas, who is interviewing him...
It is never easy to record repertory music, especially when it is so familiar because of the personality and character of the composers who are associated,...