No matter the label (Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz etc.) Jazz simply isn’t Jazz without the scope of Latin influence that helped shaped it. As...
Directed by, Kathryn GoldenProduced by, Ashley James and Kathryn Golden2022 / English and Spanish with English subtitles / 75 minutes SANTOS – Skin to Skin is...
Welcome to our monthly playlist, The Latin Side of Jazz, showcasing some of the best Latin Jazz music from around the globe. On this first issue...
Both dedicatory albums by Alex Conde – Descarga for Monk and now, Descarga for Bud – are ineffably compelling [as only the prodigious Mr Conde is...
Pianist Alex Conde Reimagines Bud Powell Through a Flamenco Lens on Descarga for Bud · New Album out May 28, 2021 via Sedajazz Descarga for Bud is the...
The singular scholarship of John Santos has never been in any doubt. Though the Introduction to Art of the Descarga delves into the details of this...
Renown Musicians, Artists to Unite in the World’s First “Concert for Cuba” – Global Broadcast on July 18 & 19 Brings Afro-Cuban Music and Culture to...
With heat from the blue part of the flame – suggesting fire and, at times, ice – in ensemble and solo passages of Infrasonic by the...
Special 4-Night Residency – Omar Sosa @ SFJAZZ Center April 20 – 23, 2017 When Omar Sosa talks about his formative influences, he always starts with...
The term ‘Spanish Tinge’ is so hackneyed today. Moreover it contains only a half truth, that being that the music came from Spain. And its originator,...
Essential Albums: Mark Weinstein’s Cuban Roots and Cuban Roots Revisited The following is an excerpt from an interview I conducted with Mark Weinstein in 2006. I...
You can always count on Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel to put on a show worthy of an award. Whether this will happen with...
Few drummers have had such a profound effect on Cuban music as Pancho Quinto. Superlatives are often risqué in music, but suffice it to say that...
26th Annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2015 SAVE THE DATE: Friday, August 7 to Sunday, August 9, 2015 Plaza de César Chavez Park, Downtown San...
The album Descarga for Monk is a rapturous flamenco record. Yes, it is Thelonious Monk. But it is also Alex Conde. The quintessential Alex Conde…