Luciana Souza – Duos III
When Luciana Souza sings, it is possible to experience everything from the elemental ache of the ache of a proverbial knife plunged into the heart to the soaring ecstasy of a soul soaring free and...
View ArticleYosvany Terry – Today’s Opinion
The work of a troubadour is never over. He traverses the world covering the geography of the liveliest hotspots on the earth as well as the emotional topography that becomes internalized as a result of...
View ArticleGabriel Vicéns – Point in Time
It is hard to believe just by listening to “Point in Time” that Gabriel Vicéns just graduated two years ago from the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico and this is his debut album. Vicéns shows in his...
View ArticleTD Toronto Jazz Festival 2013 Wish List
Back in 2011, Josh Grossman the Artistic Director of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival requested the publics input as to whom they wished to see performing at the 2012 version of the festival. I submitted a...
View ArticleFelipe Salles – Departure
It might be tempting to compare Felipe Salles’ tone on Departure on tenor saxophone with the depth and warmth of tenor Joe Henderson, but that might be somewhat of a mistake. Mr. Salles may have...
View ArticleLuciana Souza – The Book of Chet
The music of Chet Baker is located in a place of such utter solitude, yet anyone going there begins to have his or her cup filled up with a kind of remarkable and mysterious peace. Whether Mr. Baker...
View ArticleManuel Valera – New Cuban Express
This album, New Cuban Express is Cuban-American pianist, Manuel Valera’s attempt to redefine his relationship with Cuban music including the classic Cuban son and bolero...
View ArticleBest CDs of 2012 – Editor’s Picks
Best CDs of 2012 - Editor's Picks - Papo Vazquez: Oasis; Chico Alvarez: Country Roots/Urban Masters; Clarice Assad: Home; Elio Villafranca & Arturo Stable: Dos y Más; San Juan Collective: Fuera de...
View ArticleKenny Garrett – Seeds from the Underground
Beware the wild swing of saxophonist Kenny Garrett. It is splendidly hypnotic and is the kind that seizes the wandering soul guiding it into a realm of rocking rhythm. Mr. Garrett’s album, Seeds from...
View ArticleGrupo Los Santos – Clave Heart
Grupo Los Santos is a small ensemble that melds together a number of idioms and metaphors that are culled from jazz to Afro-Caribbean in a powerful, muscular mix of music that is original and...
View ArticleAkua Dixon – Moving On
Although the cello is not new to the idiom of jazz—Oscar Pettiford was a master of the instrument and played it often—there is very little music that has been written for this brother or, in this case...
View ArticleBobby Matos Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble – Mambo Jazz Dance
Music is one of the most magical of all the arts. It can, by its mere sound, excite the body to such an extent that it leaps up and dances—in most cases instinctively; with eyes closed it can suggest a...
View ArticleLuciana Souza – Duos III
When Luciana Souza sings, it is possible to experience everything from the elemental ache of the ache of a proverbial knife plunged into the heart to the soaring ecstasy of a soul soaring free and...
View ArticleKen Hatfield Sextet – For Langston
Langston Hughes is one of the great poets of the 20th century. His voice is as essential to the African American’s cry for freedom and justice as it is to the very democratic urge of all of humanity...
View ArticleArturo Stable: Dos y Más and Cuban Crosshatching – Part 1
Arturo Stable Presents a Concert in two parts, featuring Dos y Más Leonard Nimoy Thalia, New York City – Saturday, January 12, 2013 By New York Co-Editor Tomas Peña Part 1 of 2 Multi-talented...
View Article2013 Grammy Nominees: Best Latin Jazz Album
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 10, 2013, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. After a long battle to have reinstated the “Best Latin Jazz Album” category -which had been...
View ArticleLeo Gandelman – VIP VOP
Notes glide effortlessly in mighty glissandos dancing sensuously from out of the bell of Leo Gandelman’s saxophone on his insanely rhythmic album, VIP VOP. The notes of Mr. Gandelman’s music are never...
View ArticleLuis Muñoz – Luz
It is the simple and sheer beauty of the melodic musicality of Luis Muñoz that is so powerful that these qualities captivate the senses. It is not as if Mr. Muñoz’s music is simplistic or sentimental;...
View ArticleThe Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band – Ritmo
Here is a truly special compendium of charts that pays homage to the human flow of sound and silence...
View ArticleDavid Virelles And The Continuum Project Live At The Village Vanguard
From the lips of Henry Threadgill to the ears of David Virelles, the Continuum project is the expression of everything that has made David Virelles the pianist, composer and wunderkind he is today.
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