Featuring: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Michele Rosewoman Guest Curator – Piano/Vocals Special Guests: Román Díaz (Percussion/Vocals), Felix Sanabria (Percussion), Gene Golden (Percussion),...
Of all of the utterly unique aspects of the music of Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba, some are more breathtaking than everything else. Firstly, to borrow from...
Celebrating 35 years of evolution, Latin Grammy® recipient Michele Rosewoman releases the anticipated next chapter from the groundbreaking ensemble New Yor-Uba on November 1st on her...
Devotees of the incredible vivacity of Afro-Caribbean music will be spoiled for choice of a favourite moment (or moments) on this inspired 2019 release by Bill...
In a world – sadly – dominated by male musicians, the flutist Colette Michaan gets much less respect than she deserves. One wonders, however, how much...
The pianist David Virelles came to New York via Santiago de Cuba and Toronto. Along the way his vocation as a musician has unfolded in dramatic...
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...
Gnosis is a must-see event; a unique artistic experience from one of the foremost innovators in jazz today On Friday & Saturday November 27-28, 2015, The Music Gallery,...
Through the years Bill O’Connell reading of Latin-Jazz has been characterised as music that is typically measured and full-bodied, freighted with meaning. This recording Heart-Beat is...
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,...
Sacred Music for Piano, Two Basses, Drum Set and Biankoméko Abakuá The Afro-Cuban music of David Virelles’ 2015 ECM disc, Mbókò is not so much a...
The Music Gallery, Arraymusic and Lula Music & Arts present David Virelles: Gnosis featuring Román Díaz Futuristic Afro-Cuban Chamber Music WORLD PREMIERE Friday & Saturday November 27-28 Doors: 7pm |...
Jose Conde is a musician whom I have grown to admire recently. However, such repertoire, so close to traditional forms of Afro-Cuban music is not something...
Thirty years ago the composer and pianist Michele Rosewoman consummated her deep love for the great island of Cuba and its glorious music...
The third solo album of Colette Michaan, "Incarnate/Encarna"—the second, since her amazing album "Querencia"—is a notable...