OMAR SOSA’S 88 WELL-TUNED DRUMS (Ota 1035) As a rule, I am not fond of compilations, but Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums is a captivating musical...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Jazz, Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz...
Don’t let the title of this third recording by Jane Bunnett and (the new incarnation of) Maqueque fool you. Indeed the musicians of this magnificent all-woman...
The curtain rose on all the polite decorum of Koerner Hall and when the evening exploded it was as if we were swept up in the...
In a world – sadly – dominated by male musicians, the flutist Colette Michaan gets much less respect than she deserves. One wonders, however, how much...
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...
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...
“Dream” is the track 2 of Jane Bunnett & Maqueque’s album ‘Oddara’, released on October 14, 2016. ODDARA is the sophomore release from four–time JUNO Award...
Through the years Bill O’Connell reading of Latin-Jazz has been characterised as music that is typically measured and full-bodied, freighted with meaning. This recording Heart-Beat is...