You can count some wonderfully heroic performances by members of this group: from the trumpeters, Alex Norris and Matt Hilgenburg, tenor saxophonist Peter Brainin, bassists Raúl...
Marlon Simon and The Nagual Spirits return with the ambitious new album On Different Paths, blending a myriad of cultural and musical traditions. A Truth Revolution...
With so many ‘Latin-Jazz’ recordings – many of them with large ensembles – emerging from El Barrio it might be easy to overlook this independently-produced disc...
Instrumental soloists practising their craft 90 miles [or more] north of the Estrecho de Florida have long coveted the Afro-Cuban music that reverberated with the proverbial...
In eleven tracks Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits explore a captivating and superbly imagined outing, On Different Paths. Marlon and his brothers Edward Simon and...
Composer and pianist Michael Eckroth is a charismatic artist, a distinctive voice in a field crowded with technically immaculate but intermittently inspired players. Moreover, Mr Eckroth...
Jesús Hernández and Alfonso Cid (one half of New Bojaira – the others being bassist Tim Ferguson and drummer Mark Holen) are not – and will...
There are many reasons why it is a remarkable travesty of justice that the celebrated Venezuelan drummer and percussionist, Marlon Simon, has had to resort to...
It has been authoritatively stated that Chico O’Farrill was one of the most important composers and big band arrangers and conductors in the idioms of jazz...
Final Night at Birdland is the spectacular new album by Arturo O’Farrill and the legendary Chico O’Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, performing their last concert at...
There are few drummers today who have as much energy and imagination as Bobby Sanabria. He is a percussion colourist of the highest order and his...
It is not obvious that Michael Simon is a native of Venezuela, who owes as much to that tradition as he does to the jazz one...
There may be a tongue-in-cheek aspect to Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s album, 40 Acres and a Burro (Zoho Music – 2011). The...
The rise of smaller record labels and independent music producers has made a significant contribution to the number of musicians from other parts of the world...