The musical journey of the consummate pianist and erudite composer, Elio Villafranca may be described as nothing if not what the celebrated Victor Frankl described in...
World-Renowned Cuban Tres and Guitar Virtuoso Benjamin Lapidus To Release New CD “ Blues For Ochún” On April 30, 2023 World-renowned and Grammy™-nominated Cuban tres and...
It is with great excitement that we at Latin Jazz Network announce the first single release from Simon Brothers: Feel The Groove, a tremendous collaboration by...
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...
Live Performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s intimate jazz lounge, Dizzy’s Club in New York City Thursday January 13, 2022 at 7:30 pm ET and 9:30...
Pianist, Composer Michael Eckroth Presents New Album Plena. Featuring Special Guests John Fedchock and Brian Lynch, Due out October 15, 2021 via Truth Revolution Records. Truth...
The drummer Robby Ameen’s 3rd recording Diluvio explodes with atomic energy right off the blocks with the celebrated rhythmist striking a particularly pose with positively insolent...
Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Manuel Valera (Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Steve Smith) presents the dynamic debut of his New Cuban Express Big Band. Inspired by José...
The culture of the Caribbean – entrenched, as it is in the indigenous populations of the various islands – is also dominated by two other major...
Grammy-winning New York drummer Robby Ameen has had an established recording and touring career stretching from Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon over the last four decades,...
Pianist/Composer Manuel Valera and his New Cuban Express Big Band to release new recording: “José Martí En Nueva York” (Greenleaf Music) (VOICE): Camila Meza, Sofia Rei...
Sometime in the very near future, several of the jazz world’s best known writers and musicologists will meet in some obscure conclave to pool their extensive...
On his album No Boundaries (Whaling City Sound) pianist, composer Dave Bass features two-time Grammy winner Ted Nash (flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax,...
Of all of the utterly unique aspects of the music of Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba, some are more breathtaking than everything else. Firstly, to borrow from...
The title – and music – suggests there are no boundaries between Jazz styles of music and Latin ones. On the music of No Boundaries the...