For 20 years, Jazz en Dominicana (jazzendominicana.com) has been the heartbeat of the nation’s jazz scene. In celebration of this landmark anniversary, I connected with its...
In March of 2013, MoonJazz, a group made up of jazz musicians from Santiago debuted at the renown Fiesta Sunset Jazz. The group was led by...
When we were preparing various versions of the South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest in Miami, Peter Landestoy told me about the Florida-based Dominican saxophonist Luis Disla....
For jazz lovers, and especially here in our backyard, it always gives us great joy and pride every time a new record production comes out! In...
Book of interviews with musicians from the jazz scene in the Dominican Republic is published This book is the seventh by Fernando Rodríguez de Mondesert and...
A while back, Javier “Javielo” Vargas and I were talking about the status of many students from the National Conservatory of Music who were about to...
In mid-2020, Junior Santos, a Dominican percussionist living in Canada, contacted me to inform me that he would soon be presenting his album ConPambiche, which fuses...
I wanted something very special for the publication of our first Jazz en Dominicana: The Interview Series in 2024. When I was preparing the list of...
Opening Windows Into the Jazz Scene in the Dominican Republic On October 23, 2006, the project Jazz en Dominicana was born. It was originally a blog...
Fernando Rodríguez De Mondesert Publishes New Book Ukiyoto Publishing Co. has just published the new book by Fernando Rodríguez De Mondesert: Jazz en Dominicana: The Interviews...
Shortly after starting the live jazz venue Jazz en Dominicana in Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo, our percussionist friend Julio “Julito” Figueroa visited us accompanied...
On Saturday, June 22, 2024, the universally recognized pianist Michel Camilo returns to the Carlos Piantini Hall of the Eduardo Brito National Theater (Santo Domingo, Dominican...