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 longevity and the durability of the musical relationship between Paquito D’Rivera and Chucho Valdés give a freedom and flexibility to these performances on I Missed...
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....
Bronx, NY – The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture presents the three-time Grammy-Award winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra featuring Paquito D’Rivera and Hermán Olivera on...
Human history – as Gilgamesh, Homeric epics, Biblical narratives and other sagas – will tell us, is a series of events where characters, as often as...
This month on The Latin Side of Jazz we feature music with the following artists: Aggeliki, Rodney Barreto, Romero Lubambo, Edu Ribeiro, Helio Alves, Reuben Rogers,...
Arturo O’Farrill has – for a very long time – been exploring long-form composition and using it to express [by American standards, at least] his rather...
Featured Album · Editor’s Pick The juxtaposition of two major musicians – without a piano to bind them harmonically and only a bassist and drummer to...
Specific reasons led to piano-less quartet becoming a vehicle for the more explorative jazz practitioners of the 1950s and 1960s, namely, directness of group sound and...
This album was made at the time after Paquito D’Rivera had inherited what was left of Dizzy Gillespie’s seminal United Nation Orchestra and just before the...
While you might have to wait until “My Reverie” on Disc Two to experience the full virtuosity of leader and pianist Chucho Valdés, it’s worth the...
The triumphant journey through music by the inimitable Paquito D’Rivera brought him to Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto on the 7th...
The Manhattan School of Music has long been a fixture of the New York music scene and was one of the first United States conservatories to...
Living legend and multiple Grammy Award winner, Paquito D’Rivera, returns to Koerner Hall. On this occasion, he is joined by the Harlem Quartet, praised for its...
The Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna was one of the early swing bands that rocked Cuba and it’s hardly surprising why. The big band not only...