The Santiago, Chile-born Raúl Gutiérrez has been a frequent traveller to Havana, where he’s been imbued with both the rhythms and the spirit of Cuba’s glorious...
Capítulo 1 de la serie: Edición 35 del Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza en La Habana Autor: Raul da Gama / Traducción del inglés: Oscar Montagut La...
Federico Arístides Soto Alejo (Tata Güines) will be remembered this month in his homeland, Güines. For the 90th anniversary of his birth on June 30th, 2020,...
Chapter one of our series: 35th Jazz Plaza International Festival in Havana Featured photo of Brenda Navarrete by Danilo Navas – 35 Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza...
There is much anecdotal evidence – some of it apocryphal – that the Cubans brought a diabolical complexity to Jazz when the musicians among them bewitched...
Craft Recordings is proud to announce the release of The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions 5-LP and 5-CD box sets on November 9, 2018. Compiled here in...
Essential Albums Revisited (5 Stars – Editor’s Pick)Cachao’s Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature “Descargas” Depending on who you talk to, Cachao ‘invented’ the Descarga – the...
Of the many pianists that have come out of Cuba throughout its history, the young Emiliano Salvador may be one of the most iconic figures. In...
Essential Albums Revisited Pedro “Peruchín” Jústiz is one of the most iconic and seminal figures in Afro-Cuban music, a pianist who was an important influence on...
Although much of the world was welcoming of Cuba after the Revolution and although many artists did flee the country for a new world of freedom...
The clave that is pronounced in Afro-Cuban music is almost stealthily present in Jazz and has been lurking secretly in that idiom ever since the music...
Conga player and percussionist Jorge Luis Torres “Papiosco” was born in Havana City in 1969 He began to play Cuban percussion as a 3 years old...
“Happily, there are two new charts on this double CD. The first is “Gotcha”, a delightful song that mixes the New Orleans dirge with an ecstatic...