Jonathan Powell’s Mambo Jazz Party showcases his 20-year career as a trumpeter in NYC’s salsa and Latin jazz scene. As a former member of Eddie Palmieri’s...
In many ways, “great music”—indeed—great art—just seems to “happen.” But artists have also variously described the process as a cataclysmic event that is caused when the...
What on earth would Billy Strayhorn think of La Rumba is a Lovesome Thing? It is, after all, a somewhat irreverent tribute—the music is relocated from...