There is a specific kind of alchemy that occurs when a master of the contemporary idiom decides to turn his gaze backward out of a profound...
This recording, Higher Grounds, is a short extended play – just under half an hour – and if DO’A was testing the proverbial waters to gauge...
The best way to listen to Desde Lejos by the Dominican Jazz Project is by cranking up the volume on your stereo. As the notes of...
When rumba – the pure Afro-Cuban music for voices and percussion – filtered down from the Matanzas to Habana, it was only a matter of time...
In a country like Cuba – where music education programmes have tended to be designed for the 19th century, and where the European-style conservatoire has reigned...
No matter what setting he is performing in, whenever Harold López-Nussa is engaged in performance you can be rest assured of music where the grace and...
Chapter two of our series: 35th Jazz Plaza International Festival in Havana Featured photo: Callejón de Hamel – La Habana, Cuba, by Danilo Navas The legendary...
As with all the previous albums of Harold López-Nussa, this Mack Avenue recording El Viaje attests to the young pianist’s remarkable technical polish and command, as...
To perceive the new proclivities of the Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa is to trace his seemingly mystical and musical voyage unto the recording he calls New...
With his roots in both Cuba and France, this thrilling young pianist displays an impressive maturity, which at merely thirty years old, will no doubt guarantee...