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-Latin jazz music...
The dazzling virtuosity combined with the immediacy of the pianism that Pepe Rivero brings to this music, as well as the dark and seductive lyricism of...
Spain may have been considered proverbial diadem of the world, between the 7th and 11th centuries, when the Umayyad rulers established the burgeoning Arabic influence across...
Frederic Mompou Dencausse (1893-1987) was a Catalan composer and pianist who composed some songs but whose work largely and masterfully explored the technical and harmonic breadth...
To say that you can never know what to expect from pianist Alfredo Rodríguez would no longer be a surprising observation even if the cues are...
A music video of the title track of their latest album Ida y Vuelta, Maureen Choi Qu4rtet presents this video with some of the members of...
Violinist Maureen Choi is well on the way to finding her voice and even if it takes a few more years she will eventually get there....
If you have heard Alfredo Rodriguez’s latest album, Tocororo then you will certainly be familiar with the work of the extraordinary drummer, Michael Olivera, who played...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album As a pianist, Alfredo Rodriguez is a rare bird, the very epitomé of the one he celebrates on Tocororo. He creates...
Featured photo of Iván “Melón” Lewis by Antonio Porcar The repertoire consists of nine relatively short pieces – only two are over six minutes – inspired...
The artistic goldmine that is Cuba continues to give up its riches. Even before Machito was “discovered” by Dizzy Gillespie (and much later, Gonzalo Rubalcaba) there...