It is with great excitement that we at Latin Jazz Network announce the first single release from Simon Brothers: Feel The Groove, a tremendous collaboration by...
Pianist/Composer Manuel Valera and his New Cuban Express Big Band to release new recording: “José Martí En Nueva York” (Greenleaf Music) (VOICE): Camila Meza, Sofia Rei...
Carolina Calvache Marries Poetry and Music on Vida Profunda, out May 29th on Sunnyside Records Pianist, Composer and Arranger Carolina Calvache is pleased to announce the release...
The words “profoundly beautiful” are often used to describe works of art, but often some works appear to give new meaning to those words – like...
Following his success with his solo album Live in London Michel Camilo returns to revisiting his music on a very large palette – his first big...
Legendary Pianist Michel Camilo Celebrates 25th Album as a Leader with Stunning All-Star Big Band Release For his landmark 25th album as a leader, iconic pianist,...
There has always been a healthy restlessness to Elio Villafranca. When I spoke to him in February 2015 he was about to debut a new suite...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album The record package itself for Cinque is modest, but oddly impressive; its black cover has the title and Mr Villafranca’s name...
That Dafnis Prieto has undertaken an epic musical voyage is clear from the music on this disc. Back to the Sunset, is the culmination of a...
Alfredo Rodriguez ambles onto stage, but that’s all the ‘ambling’ he would do for the rest of the night. Once he sits at the piano he...
Danilo Pérez with Ben Street & Terri Lyne Carrington and Alfredo Rodríguez Trio – In Concert at Koerner Hall, Toronto Two of the best Latin jazz...
Cuban Jazz Artist Elio Villafranca To Headline At Aaron Davis Hall ‘Cuba – Senegal: Letters to Mother Africa II,’ acclaimed pianist-composer’s ode to Cuba and Africa,...
Ricky Rodriguez has proved himself a bassist of exceptional agility and finesse in other musicians’ groups, notably in his work with Joe Locke and Fabian Almazan,...
Drums. They were not quite the first instrument, but even so much as a scatological suggestion of sound can quicken the blood; and their thunder and...
On El Conde Negro Pete Rodríguez seems bask in the burnished glow of his horn as he stretches and relaxes his way through ten beautifully wrought...