You may think you “know” the Bronx – and the South Bronx – in particular and depending on the time you have spent visiting it you...
Featured photo of Carlos Henriquez by Leslie Farinacci Virtuosic Bassist Carlos Henriquez pays tribute to the South Bronx on The South Bronx Story, His Revelatory New...
The words “profoundly beautiful” are often used to describe works of art, but often some works appear to give new meaning to those words – like...
Carlos Henriquez may not be the first to (rightfully) pay tribute to Dizzy Gillespie nor will he be the last. But his is a remarkable one...
Etienne Charles has added an important opus to the literature of contemporary music with the release of Carnival – The Sound of a People Vol. 1;...
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture presents an exciting double bill of contemporary Latin jazz with the Grammy-nominated New Cuban Express featuring some of the...
Sabiduría by Eddie Palmieri Known as one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years, Eddie Palmieri is a bandleader, arranger and composer of salsa...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · A Latin Jazz Perspective On The Music Of Woody Shaw Woody Shaw was an artist endowed with two...
Four years in the making, Grammy© Award winning trumpeter Brian Lynch’s Madera Latino (Latin Wood) project, exploring the music of jazz innovator and master trumpeter Woody...
Drums. They were not quite the first instrument, but even so much as a scatological suggestion of sound can quicken the blood; and their thunder and...
Day 2 of the 92nd Street Y’s Latin on Lex series celebrated “a snapshot of a musical movement that could only have taken place in New...
Helen Sung’s pianism is informed by elegance and an intellect that goes far beyond her young years. Both qualities cannot be learnt. The former is honed...
“Throughout a career spanning six decades, the New York-based artist Monty Alexander has garnered acclaim for bridging American jazz, popular song, and the music of his...
There might be a gentleman’s argument as to whom the pianist Monty Alexander belongs to; Jamaica, where he was born, or New York where he resides....
This album by the composer and tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart Jazz Racine Haïti is significant for several factual reasons and the core aspects and of the...