Before celebrating the 25th anniversary of the recording of Grammy Award nominated album Jane Bunnett: Alma de Santiago, it pays to take a step back and...
The heart gives a leap at the prospect of listening to a debut record by a young woman you have so admired for the work she...
Somehow, I suspect that Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer [the two are joined at the musical hip] never doubted that Maqueque, this fiery, spirited all-woman Afro-Cuban...
After dark they gather, the spirits of Havana. Is that a ghostly, but fatback-toned rapping down in the barrio where the great composer and percussionist Chano...
This recording by Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer, partners in music and life, has been widely recognized as a groundbreaking project and highly praised for its...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
“Happily, there are two new charts on this double CD. The first is “Gotcha”, a delightful song that mixes the New Orleans dirge with an ecstatic...
The Cuban Piano Masters Project This unique musical group was first conceived in Havana, Cuba in 1992 at the National Theatre with the great Cuban pianists...
Jane Bunnett is never afraid to push the envelope. She did so with her 1988 album, In Dew Time, the now out-of-print vinyl that was produced...