Sometime in the very near future, several of the jazz world’s best known writers and musicologists will meet in some obscure conclave to pool their extensive...
To say that the art of Arturo O’Farrill is “fascinating” would be telling only part of his story, for Mr O’Farrill’s music is quite profound. It...
Chiemi Nakai displays her remarkable piano chops with the heavy left hand tumbao while still managing to be delicately eloquent. Even when she is at her...
Part of the reason why this music is so compelling is certainly due to the splendid accord with which this ensemble reads these arrangements, all of...
Thank heavens that Marty Sheller gives us his wonders in small packages – six songs and just over a quarter of an hour of music, this...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album · The Columbia University Professor, author and musician, trombonist Chris Washburne enjoys the company of some of the finest young musicians...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · Big Bands are an endangered species. So it is with great excitement that one welcomes Hector Martignon’s Banda...
For Bebop to work in the Latin realm it takes a very special talent with an uncanny ability to feel the flatted fifths in clave. It...
The ubiquitous and colourful conga drum often resides in a cluttered space especially in Latin Jazz, a music that it seems to have shaped and given...
This is a record several years in the making. You will find performances by the late Mario Rivera and Nestor Sánchez, as well as by Dave...
The Battle has begun, the Battle of… Titans! The Grammy Award winner Doug Beavers brings us his exquisite, new album, Titanes del Trombón, a tremendous musical...
This has to be the most hip album since “Low Ridin’” was first invented in the 50’s hydraulics and all. The fact that it has a...
feel•ing (fee-ling): a function or the power of perceiving by touch. A particular sensation of this kind: a feeling of warmth. The general state of consciousness...
It has been authoritatively stated that Chico O’Farrill was one of the most important composers and big band arrangers and conductors in the idioms of jazz...
Steven Kroon’s bands have always been an exciting prospect. Lately his music has resembled a kind of sonic teeter-tooter. In the one hand the group’ sound...