Tag: Sammy Figueroa

MONDAY, JUNE 12th 6pm - SAINT PETER’S CHURCH 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th St. - New York, NY 10022 (Bronx, NY) A Musical Celebration of Life for the renowned...

On Mamblue saxophonist Dr. Ed Calle has created not one, but two imperishable discs brim-full of magical charts meriting the simple designation: a musical...

If you are one among the group who considers Sammy Figueroa to be a percussionist’s percussionist you might as well count yourself in a...

The members of this ensemble on Saga concluded this recording sometime before 2014, when this distinguished double CD was released. This musical journey...

It is not unusual today for the music of any idiom to collide with another and produce a seismic event in both idioms. Music...

Lucky Charm: Sammy Figueroa and Glaucia Nasser Bring Brazilian Song and Latin Jazz Together in a Beautiful Accident on 'Talisman' With special guests Bianca Gismonti...

Sammy Figueroa has long been regarded as one of the world's great musicians. As one of the world's leading percussionists he has played on countless records, providing the rhythmical framework for hundreds of hits. Well-known for his ...

Most fans, even aficionados of contemporary music, still only vaguely know the great trumpeter Claudio Roditi as the “Brazilian who joined Arturo Sandoval in Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra”. It is a pity that Roditi’s musical reputation rests on so narrow a spectrum in his enormous musical career. Few know, for instance, that Roditi was one of the first Brazilian musicians to relocate in the United States of America: in 1970 as a matter of fact [...]