Tag: Roman Díaz
Colette Michaan · Heaven and Earth-Cielo y Tierra
In a world – sadly – dominated by male musicians, the flutist Colette Michaan gets much less respect than she deserves. One wonders, however,...
David Virelles Presents: Gnosis
The pianist David Virelles came to New York via Santiago de Cuba and Toronto. Along the way his vocation as a musician has unfolded...
The Pedrito Martinez Group: Habana Dreams
Editor's Pick · Album of the Month ·
It is true that when Pedrito Martinez puts it out there that a new album is coming,...
David Virelles: Gnosis at The Music Gallery in Toronto
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...
Bill O’Connell and the Latin Jazz All-Stars: Heart Beat
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...
Román Díaz: L’ó dá fún Bàtá
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...
David Virelles: Mbókò
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...
David Virelles: Gnosis Featuring Román Díaz
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 | Concert: 8pm
The Music Gallery,...
Ola Fresca: Elixir
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...
Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba: 30 Years
Thirty years ago the composer and pianist Michele Rosewoman consummated her deep love for the great island of Cuba and its glorious music...
Colette Michaan: Incarnate / Encarna
The third solo album of Colette Michaan, "Incarnate/Encarna"—the second, since her amazing album "Querencia"—is a notable...
North by Northeast: Steve Pouchie
With his latest production, North By Northeast, vibraphonist Steve Pouchie may not be scaling Mount Rushmore or dashing about in a gray suit, evading...
Steve Pouchie and His Latin Jazz Ensemble: North by Northeast
This album, North by Northeast is an infinitely sophisticated recording, full of romantic allusions from literature and film. If it suggests Alfred Hitchcock, it...
JALC Opens Concert Season With “Ochas”
New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center: Chucho Valdés, Pedrito Martínez, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra open the 2014-2015 concert...
David Virelles Releases New Album: Mbókò
With Mbókò, pianist-composer David Virelles – based now in Brooklyn but born and bred in Cuba – has taken the folkloric rhythms of Afro-Cuban...
Yosvany Terry: New Throned King
Editor's Pick · Featured Album ·
Of all the young Cuban-born musicians and music that springs out of New York, few are as exciting as...
Ritual Beating of the Drum
Ritual Beating of the Drum: The Music of Michele Rosewoman, Francisco Mora Catlett and Yosvany Terry
By every account the Orishas have been pleased ever...
Q&A With Cultural Historian Ivor Miller
Q&A with Ivor Miller, Cultural Historian, Author And Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross...
Jazz En La Encrucijada: Los Pasos de Elegguá
Cada martes durante estas últimas dos semanas he visitado Minton's. Ubicado en la calle 118 y la avenida St. Nicholas, está en el mismo...
Conversation With Dita Sullivan
For the past two Tuesdays, I have been stopping by at Minton’s on 118th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, in the heart of Harlem...
