With Monk con Clave, Carlos Henríquez steps into a defining moment of his artistic journey. Known for decades as a deeply grounded, authoritative bassist, Henríquez now...
October 7, 2023 marked the release of Joey Altruda’s tour de force album, Joey Altruda Presents: El Gran Fellové, featuring legendary Cuban Jazz singer El Gran...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
Of all the young Cuban-born musicians and music that springs out of New York, few are as exciting as Elio Villafranca and Yosvany Terry. Both have...
By every account the Orishas have been pleased ever since the beginning of time. But never more pleased than with three new collections of music that...
The lineage of Cuban pianists is long and illustrious. It has been brimful with lofty musical intellect, dazzling virtuosity and celebrated repertoire. The league of extraordinary...
On the Release of Trio Time (Menduvia Music, 2013) By Tomas Peña In 1998 a group of young, Cuban musicians residing on Aztec soil formed a...
“On Derramando Luz Gema explores aspects of cuban music fused with the harmonics of jazz and convey both the present and the past of cuban music...
According to writer Ned Sublette, “Son de Altura has three trumpets, but Yunior’s a violinist who grew up a charanguero, and the band collapses the two...
The work of a troubadour is never over. He traverses the world covering the geography of the liveliest hotspots on the earth as well as the...
The insane revelry of the guaguancó kicks off De La Habana a Nueva York, and produces a blue flame of energy from an all, but forgotten...
"On October 18, 2009 renowned drummer, Ernesto Simpson brought an all-star band to my home on to perform a composition of his and Manuel Valera's. With...