What a fabulously interesting idea for the virtuoso pianist and bandleader Roberto Fonseca to bring together some of the finest musicians in Cuba to lure us...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated weekly playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Ibero-American and Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz...
Chapter four [final] of our series: 35th Jazz Plaza International Festival in Havana In recent months I found myself in profound reflection of the term “Ancient...
There is, quite simply, no trumpeter in the world today who sounds like Ibrahim Maalouf. This has everything to do with his instrument, which is reported...
When the Fingers do the Chanting The pianist Roberto Fonseca stands quite apart from the plethora of impressive young pianists to come out of Cuba since...
Roberto Fonseca Live In Concert at Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017 We climb the myriad stairs of Monument-National, on Boulevard Saint Laurent only...
In what has suddenly become the rising tide of Latin Jazz music, Chano Domínguez rides the crest of the wave, his music, surfing in an entirely...
With the release of ABUC it has become eminently clear that everything Roberto Fonseca has been writing and performing, and capturing on disc has been leading...
ABUC is the highly anticipated follow up to Yo, Roberto Fonseca’s 2012 recording that scored a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album. Aided by more...
This record Echu Mingua pays tribute to Miguel ‘Angá’ Diaz’s Yoruba deity. This prophetic return to his roots – he says in his notes, “Here I...
This recording, Yo by Roberto Fonseca appears to be his most visceral work of music so far. Despite having a high musical intellect and striving for...
In his follow-up to 2007’s Zamazu (Enja/Justin Time), Cuban piano master, Roberto Fonseca deepens his journey into his quasi-mystical musical search. Like the mythical Gilgamesh, the...
The considerable talent of Cuban pianist, Roberto Fonseca has now spread far and wide and if there was another dimension to enter, it would be the...