For three decades, trombonist Conrad Herwig has pursued one of contemporary Latin jazz’s most durable ideas: reimagining the music of major jazz composers through the rhythmic...
You can count some wonderfully heroic performances by members of this group: from the trumpeters, Alex Norris and Matt Hilgenburg, tenor saxophonist Peter Brainin, bassists Raúl...
Instrumental soloists practising their craft 90 miles [or more] north of the Estrecho de Florida have long coveted the Afro-Cuban music that reverberated with the proverbial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The drummer Chris Smith’s dream of making music a way of life has something of a fairytale quality to it and so does the formation of...
The pianist David Virelles came to New York via Santiago de Cuba and Toronto. Along the way his vocation as a musician has unfolded in dramatic...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · There has been a lot of musical buzz around Greg Diamond who even travelled as far as India,...