On Artistas, Músicos Y Poetas, percussionist Chembo Corniel has cooked up a colorful musical stew of explosive polyrhythms, inventive jazz solos, and exciting ensembles. His quintet with...
2016 marked the Bronx Conexión Latin Jazz Big Band’s highly acclaimed debut titled TRUE FLIGHT. After a five-year hiatus, the dynamic 20-piece ensemble, ably led by the percussionist, composer,...
Brazilian Whispers… How appropriate is that as the title for an album by Andrea Brachfeld. Not only does the instrument she plays – the flute –...
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...
Harlem Celebrates Puerto Rican Heritage Month through the music of Afro-Rican Descendants From the Mainland to the Homeland to New bands, Grammy Nominated Artists “Chembo” Corniel...
The idea for a ‘sans-chordal-instrument’ trio may have come to Paul Carlon from Sonny Rollins’ piano-less ensembles over a period of time, but that is where...
Joel LaRue Smith is one of those rare pianists who has the ability to play proficiently in almost any musical scenario. Blessed with the most extraordinary...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · It would be downright foolish to assume that just because Chembo Corniel fronts the quintet this album, that...
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...
2009 GRAMMY NOMINEE Percussionist Wilson “Chembo” Corniel was born in Manhattan on November 22, 1953 of proud Puerto Rican parents and raised in the humble streets...
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...
Sixteen years ago Bobby Sanabria took his Big Band on the road and when they were in Birdland on May 20 in 1999, the indefatigable leader...
This album, North by Northeast is an infinitely sophisticated recording, full of romantic allusions from literature and film. If it suggests Alfred Hitchcock, it is because...
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...
To pay tribute to Mongo Santamaría and Thelonious Monk, two legendary musicians of this or any era is challenge enough; but to pay tribute to them...