The evening of March 1, 2025 at Koerner Hall in Toronto marked the world premiere of Warm Winds From Cuba, a project that featured the beloved Canadian saxophonist, flautist,...
Somehow, I suspect that Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer [the two are joined at the musical hip] never doubted that Maqueque, this fiery, spirited all-woman Afro-Cuban...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated weekly playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Ibero-American and Afro-Latin jazz music...
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque has evolved – in less than five years – from a project to support and honor the new generation of young women...
Don’t let the title of this third recording by Jane Bunnett and (the new incarnation of) Maqueque fool you. Indeed the musicians of this magnificent all-woman...
The curtain rose on all the polite decorum of Koerner Hall and when the evening exploded it was as if we were swept up in the...
Yissy García was one of the girls who were brought out of Cuba by the renowned soprano saxophonist and flutist “Havana” Jane Bunnett to form the...
Yissy García–a composer and drummer- is one of the most powerful artists of this new generation of Cuban musicians. There is a lot of groove in...
Final track off of Jane Bunnett & Maqueque’s new album ‘Oddara’ ODDARA is the sophomore release from four–time JUNO Award winner, two–time GRAMMY Award nominee and...
To sing Marta Valdés, one has to become Marta Valdés. Gema Corredera becomes the presiding deity, Marta Valdés, on each and every one of these 14...
The archetype of an Afro-Cuban jazz drummer would probably be Chano Pozo, the pioneering “conguero” whose influence on jazz was heard around the world. He wrote...
When the album Jane Bunnett and Maqueque was released in 2014 it seemed to suggest that the celebrated soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett, already at...
“Dream” is the track 2 of Jane Bunnett & Maqueque’s album ‘Oddara’, released on October 14, 2016. ODDARA is the sophomore release from four–time JUNO Award...
The celebrated Canadian soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett is embracing voices again. But these voices are of a slightly different sort. The Creole Choir of Cuba is...