Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · Raul Agraz’s Between Brothers is welcome companion to his other releases. But more than that, it is an...
Essential Albums Revisited At first blush one might feel that William Cepeda AfroRican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond might seem like an attempt to re-brand what...
The history of music of Afro-Cuban origin, music that begat Latin-Jazz cannot be told in 500 words, not in a thousand and you can only make...
*Editor’s Pick – Album of the month – Armando Manzanero is 80 years old now. But he has been practicing his craft since the age of...
If there is anyone who communicates through music and life it could be said that few people do it better than Paquito D’Rivera. If you have...
This 1995 recording, made on the Telarc label, Heads Up was the debut album for the iconic group, The Caribbean Jazz Project. On the recording Paquito...
The concept of a collision between jazz and classical music is not new. The fantasy has been driving composers and performers as early as the turn...
Featured photo of Iván “Melón” Lewis by Antonio Porcar The repertoire consists of nine relatively short pieces – only two are over six minutes – inspired...
Israel “Cachao” López is one of those larger-than-life figures, a monumental Cuban musician. Although not as famous as Bebo Valdés, he was still one of Cuba’s...
In his short note appended to the album No Limits for Tumbao, César Orozco makes a case for the generous helping of Cuban and Venezuelan traditional...
Nothing – and I mean nothing; no track list and probably no ensemble either – is more suitable to the emotional intimacy and urgency and better...
There is no “one” single iconic recording by the great Bebo Valdés. The pianist was an epitomé of good taste, which is not the reason for...
When Michel Camilo recorded One More Once and released the record on Columbia in the Fall of 1994, it created quite a sensation. Not merely were...
Not only is every track on this CD “perfection” but each proclaims artists of exceptional calibre, establishing their positions as important players of Cuban classics. And...
Giovanni Hidalgo as of today [March 2015] is just fifty-two years old, but he has been a professional percussionist for a little over forty years. This...