Both Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez are musicians known for great virtuosity on their respective instruments – Mr Rodríguez on the piano and Mr Martinez as...
Very rarely indeed does one get to call an album of music “a masterpiece” and actually mean it. But this is absolutely true of The Grand...
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...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · It is true that when Pedrito Martinez puts it out there that a new album is coming, half...
For a change and long overdue Román Díaz is the hero of an Afro-Cuban recording and that too one wholly immersed in the language of Lukumi,...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba has sojourned all over the topography of music ever since his performing days in Cuba and the rest of the world, and ever since...
There is topographical significance in the musical architecture of Carlos Henriquez’s record, The Bronx Pyramid and it is a bold thesis, one that has gained considerable...
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...
Grammy-winning pianist Danilo Pérez presents the World Premiere of his PANAMANIA Suite at Koerner Hall in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Danilo Pérez The PANAMANIA...
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...
Thirty years ago the composer and pianist Michele Rosewoman consummated her deep love for the great island of Cuba and its glorious music with her seminal...
New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center: Chucho Valdés, Pedrito Martínez, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra open the 2014-2015 concert season with...
From the earliest times of its existence—certainly during the 1700’s and the baroque era of Johann Sebastian Bach—the organ has been...
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...