What can you say about the album Mélange by Kalí Rodríguez-Peña? So many things, really… For one: it’s the kind of album that instantly leaps out...
Trumpeter and composer Kalí Rodríguez-Peña blurs the lines between genres as he pays homage to the 21st-century mindset with his hard-grooving debut, Mélange, out March 4,...
Perhaps the best raison d’être – albeit in a wonderfully twisted sort of way – is that it is “tethered to nothing”. This is what the...
There can hardly be enough applause for this record. The quality of playing on the part of pianist Albert Marqués, bassist Walter Stinson and drummer Zack...
You know that you are in the presence of musical royalty when an O’Farrill strikes up the band. Recently that has become more regular, with Arturo...
The pianist Albert Marques, bassist Walter Stinson and drummer Zack O’Farrill are making enough of a beautiful noise to make listeners and critics sit up and...
2013 was a remarkably good year for the New York music scene and a particularly good year for Cuban music. Producer Dita Sullivan presented an intriguing...