Yissy García–a composer and drummer- is one of the most powerful artists of this new generation of Cuban musicians. There is a lot of groove in...
The pianist Miguel de Armas is blessed with a magnificent tumbao and he uses it to great effect on What’s to Come. But if you thought...
If the idiocy of so-called “cultural appropriation” were to be taken any more seriously than it is right now, would that ever make it possible for...
Final track off of Jane Bunnett & Maqueque’s new album ‘Oddara’ ODDARA is the sophomore release from four–time JUNO Award winner, two–time GRAMMY Award nominee and...
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...
When the album Jane Bunnett and Maqueque was released in 2014 it seemed to suggest that the celebrated soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett, already at...
“Dream” is the track 2 of Jane Bunnett & Maqueque’s album ‘Oddara’, released on October 14, 2016. ODDARA is the sophomore release from four–time JUNO Award...
“Listening to it now, it’s clear: Spirits of Havana was twenty-five years ahead of its time” — Ned Sublette Tempis Fugit! Twenty-five years since Jane Bunnett...
Essential Albums Revisited I thought that this Justin Time recording Habana Nocturna (1999) by Hilario Durán was going to be all-but-forgotten. I also thought, for no...
Grammy-winning pianist Danilo Pérez presents the World Premiere of his PANAMANIA Suite at Koerner Hall in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Danilo Pérez The PANAMANIA...
Every one of the albums that Jane Bunnett has made, with or without her husband and trumpet/flugelhorn player, Larry Cramer, with or without Don Pullen, is...
Montreal Jazz Fest is the world’s biggest festival featuring the best of jazz and its musical cousins! Ranked as the world’s largest jazz festival by Guinness...
The 2015 edition of the prestigious Toronto Luminato Festival presents world class, globally inspired performances. One of the highlights of their musical offerings is without doubt...
The celebrated Canadian soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett is embracing voices again. But these voices are of a slightly different sort. The Creole Choir of Cuba is...
The Heavyweights Brass Band (HBB) may seem to have taken a leaf out of the playbook of that other, more famous ensemble—the woodwinds ensemble, the World...