The term “legend” is usually reserved for a revered musician who is long gone. However, there are times when you must apply this to someone living...
Afro-Cuban Jazz & Beyond Hilario Durán & Ignacio Berroa Chris Mitchell, Jorge Luis Torres and Roberto Occhipinti *Canadian Summer Tour 2015 The influence of Afro-Cuban music...
What happens when you have a number of sublimely talented musicians rubbing shoulders together on a disc? If the programme is satisfying chances are the disc...
World Music Festival 2014 – Jazz FM91 – Hugh’s Room (August 5 – 9) JAZZ.FM91’s World Music Festival takes over the Hugh’s Room stage for this...
Jazz Meets The Classics by Paquito D’Rivera The border between classical and jazz music has always been a fluid one, with composers from each camp finding...
Now in its ninth year, The Lulaworld festival brings together Toronto’s finest world, jazz and Latin musicians performing alongside and collaborating with celebrated international guests. In...
Sierra Maestra In Concert At Lula Lounge The legendary Cuban ensemble is presented by Small World Music and Okokan Productions on Wednesday, February 5th at Lula...
Alexander Brown is a truly gifted trumpeter. The Cuban-born Canadian, of African Cuban heritage plays with breathtaking honesty. There is a great unquenchable fire in his...
Experience & Enjoy all the Flavourful Colours of Jazz! JPEC – www.jpec.ca – invites you & your friends to the amazing “Paintbox Bistro” Saturday nights in...
It seems both significant and appropriate that the eminent rumbero, Jorge Luis Torres Paumier “Papiosco” should choose the iconic “Iroko” tree as the title for his...
Chicago Latin Jazz Festival expands with legendary Cuban-born conga king Candido Camero, South Bronx great Bobby Sanabria and Canada’s leading Cuban music emissary Jane Bunnett! Chicago...
“Hilario Durán is an unparalleled pianist, as well as being a composer and arranger of the first order… one of the greatest Cuban pianists of the...
April is Jazz Appreciation Month (named by the Smithsonian Institution), culminating on the 30th with International Jazz Day (a project of UNESCO, organized by the Thelonious Monk Institute...
Concert Review: Jane Bunnett with special guest Chucho Valdés Saturday, October 20, 2012 at Koerner Hall, Toronto Notes were fluttering out of the bell of the...
Grammy Award-winning sax master Paquito D’Rivera joined internationally renowned pianist and arranger Hilario Durán with his big band of 20 stellar Latin jazz artists. The concert...