The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated weekly playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Ibero-American and Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz...
If something in the water of Cuba gives birth to prodigious artistry it is in their great conservatoires of Habana that this artistry – more often...
The name of José Miguel Crego “El Greco” is a familiar one to those who view the long line of radiant Cuban trumpeters that includes several...
In January of last year, 2020, I had the opportunity to travel to Havana with my colleague, the renowned writer and cultural chronicler Raul Da Gama....
En enero del año pasado, 2020, tuve la oportunidad de viajar a La Habana con mi colega, el reconocido escritor y cronista cultural Raul Da Gama....
Ocho años han pasado desde que el matancero Ethiel Faílde (el sobrino tataranieto del creador musical del danzón Miguel Faílde) y un grupo de talentosos músicos...
Eight years have passed since Ethiel Faílde (he’s the great-great-nephew of the musical creator of the danzón Miguel Faílde) and a group of talented musicians created...
A fierce energy leaps out of the opening notes of Mama Ina, the exquisitely-crafted debut album by the prodigiously-gifted bassist Gastón Joya. It is the song...
This is an ambitious project. Bassist Matt Geraghty, reeds and winds player Zé Luis Oliveira together with documentary filmmaker Laura Newman plan an ambitious project –...
It was Cecil Taylor (and there were probably many more who came before him) who said that if you cannot dance to music then it is...