While scrolling through YouTube recently I happened upon Mr. Flute – The Art Webb Documentary (2022) directed by Omar J. Pineda. I first heard about Webb...
Featuring such enduring hits as “Ban Ban Queré,” “Guararé,” and “Canto Abacuá,” the album marks the influential bandleader’s first LP with celebrated vocalists Rubén Blades and...
One month before his death, Ray Barretto was the recipient of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, the highest honor that our nation bestows on jazz artists....
“Ray Barretto, percussionist and conductor, known throughout the world as Manos Duras, belongs to a generation of children of Boricua immigrants who settled in the Big...
Barretto Power: A Celebratory Reissue on its 50th Anniversary It was 1970 when Fania Records released Barretto Power, one of a series of seminal albums by...
This album Standards Rican-ditioned by Ray Barretto has a very special – albeit tragic – place in the history and in the everlasting library of Latin-Jazz....
“Latin jazz is one of the few distinct art forms the USA has given the world. Ralph Irizarry and Timbalaye’s new CD give us abundant glimpses...
The ubiquitous and colourful conga drum often resides in a cluttered space especially in Latin Jazz, a music that it seems to have shaped and given...
Tito Puente, “El Rey del timbal” was almost singlehandedly responsible for bringing Cuban son, mambo and cha-cha-cha into the ballrooms and auditoriums, contributing to the seminal...
THE INTERVIEW – Part II – August, 2008 – April, 2009: Conversations Between CHICO ALVAREZ PERAZA and HARVEY AVERNE CAP: As we all know Harvey, your...