What a fabulously interesting idea for the virtuoso pianist and bandleader Roberto Fonseca to bring together some of the finest musicians in Cuba to lure us...
Cuban alto saxophonists playing Afro-Cuban music – even Black American Music in the Afro-Cuban idiom – are well known. The best-known contemporary players of that instrument...
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...
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...
Featured photo of Janio Abreu by Danilo Navas – 35 Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza 2020 – Teatro Martí, La Habana. This month we present a playlist...
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...
Continuing from where he left off in his journey through the ritual magic of the Afro-Cuban musical experience some two years ago Adriano Clemente has surfaced...