The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
Down the ages, poets, writers of prose, dramatists, painters and sculptors have often made social commentary central to their work in theme idiom and execution; less...
New Music by Grammy Winning Jazz Artist Yosvany Terry Helps Depict True Stories of Cuban Born Artists Living in the US The original stage production We...
Ocho años han pasado desde que el matancero Ethiel Faílde (el sobrino tataranieto del creador musical del danzón Miguel Faílde) y un grupo de talentosos músicos...
Eight years have passed since Ethiel Faílde (he’s the great-great-nephew of the musical creator of the danzón Miguel Faílde) and a group of talented musicians created...
Itai Kriss together with Hadar Noiberg is one of New York’s worst-kept secrets. Both flutists wear their Middle Eastern heritage just as well as they blend...
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture presents an exciting double bill of contemporary Latin jazz with the Grammy-nominated New Cuban Express featuring some of the...
Very rarely indeed does one get to call an album of music “a masterpiece” and actually mean it. But this is absolutely true of The Grand...
Back by extremely popular demand, Nuevo Jazz Latino returns to The Appel Room Friday, November 3, 2017 and Saturday, November 4, 2017. 7:00 and 9:30 pm...
Each of these premiere recordings on Ancestral Memories references the continuum of music written and performed in a series of cycles that seem to intersect one...
Special 4-Night Residency – Omar Sosa @ SFJAZZ Center April 20 – 23, 2017 When Omar Sosa talks about his formative influences, he always starts with...
In his short note appended to the album No Limits for Tumbao, César Orozco makes a case for the generous helping of Cuban and Venezuelan traditional...
Drums. They were not quite the first instrument, but even so much as a scatological suggestion of sound can quicken the blood; and their thunder and...
Day 2 of the 92nd Street Y’s Latin on Lex series celebrated “a snapshot of a musical movement that could only have taken place in New...
"Ilé" couldn’t be more appropriate a name for pianist Omar Sosa’s collection of compositions that oftentimes mine the more celestial aspects of...