UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock are pleased to announce the designation of Chicago (USA) as host city for the 2026 International...
Paris, Washington, D.C. and Abu Dhabi – The 2025 edition of International Jazz Day 2025 will be celebrated in more than 190 countries on 30 April,...
Paris and Washington, DC, March 19, 2024 – The 2024 edition of International Jazz Day will be celebrated in more than 190 countries on April 30. UNESCO...
Omar Sosa and Marialy Pacheco… two distinct musical minds, two unique voices, but seemingly of one vision, united as if by one heart, play soulfully like...
The album Front Street Duets played by the great Hilario Durán and his one-time acolyte, David Virelles is a sublime recording. It is one that only...
This superb music from 1956 has an odd footnote at the bottom of my copy, which says “Recorded under the personal supervision of the Fidel Castro...
The ultimate expression of Wayne Shorter’s desire to make a “Brasilian” record is Native Dancer. However it is further from being a “Brasilian” record than it...
Herbie Hancock was just twenty-three when he recorded this Inventions & Dimensions. The music on the recording, and the fact that Mr. Hancock was laying down...
On October 3, 2014, the documentary Keep on Keepin’ On will premiere in New York. The film documents the ongoing relationship between trumpet legend Clark Terry...
American comedian, TV producer, educator, and activist Bill Cosby has joined a roster of respected celebrities and musicians including Paul Simon, Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Carlos...