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Emerging Band People of Earth to Release Self-Titled Debut Album on May 5th, 2023 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
People of Earth’s Self-Titled Debut Album Offers Nine Tracks that Capture the Unique Blend of Influences, Explorations, and Experimentations That Has Defined the Band’s Sound Thus Far
 
P.o.E’s Singers Effortlessly Switch from Spanish to English to Portuguese as They Perform What They’ve Coined American Timba Music
 
Since first exploding onto New York’s cutting-edge Latin and tropical music scene, People of Earth has become one of the city’s most exciting emerging bands.

Multi-Instrumentalist Scott Mayo Releases New Album “Meu Brasil” | LISTEN!


 
Scott Mayo releases Meu Brasil
 
Listen to the single “Vista do Corcovado”
 
Multi-instrumentalist, producer and arranger Scott Mayo released his third album Meu Brasil . Meu Brasil is his first Brazilian project and features maestro Sergio Mendes, guitarists/composers Dori Caymmi and Guinga and the voice of Gracinha Leporace, among others.

Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band to Release New Album “Vox Humana” on May 12th, 2023


 
Celebrating 25 years!
The multi-Grammy nominated
Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band to release new recording
“VOX HUMANA”
 
New York….February 9th, 2023 – On the heels of their Grammy nominated and 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Album of the Year Award winning critically acclaimed masterwork, West Side Story Reimagined, and in celebration of their 25th anniversary renowed drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator, Bobby Sanabria and his Multiverse Big Band return with their most ambitious work to date, VOX HUMANA.

Singer DOE Releases New Spanish Track “En Ti Yo Esperaré (What I’m Waiting For)” feat. TWICE | LISTEN!


 
DOE RELEASES NEW SPANISH TRACK “EN TI YO ESPERARÉ (WHAT I’M WAITING FOR)” FEAT. TWICE, AND NEW YORK DATE ADDED FOR “A NIGHT OF CLARITY” SOLO TOUR
 
Nashville, TN (November 11, 2022) – Award-winning recording artist DOE, has released a new Spanish track “En Ti Yo Esperaré (What I’m Waiting For)” feat. TWICE, available on digital music providers now.

Vocalist Maria Mendes to Release New Album “Saudade, Colour of Love” on Oct. 7th, 2022 | WATCH & LISTEN!


 
Portuguese-Born Vocalist Maria Mendes Releases the Single “Hermeto’s Fado for Maria” Today
From Her Forthcoming Album, Saudade, Colour of Love
 
Due Out October 7 on Challenge Records, Saudade, Colour of Love Features Orchestral Arrangements of Songs from Her Grammy-Nominated Album Close To Me
 
Hailing from Portugal and based for the last decade and a half in the Netherlands, Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-nominated vocalist and composer Maria Mendes is no stranger to living between two different worlds.

Multi-Grammy Winner Eliane Elias Returns with New Project “Quietude” on Oct. 14th, 2022 | LISTEN! Announces Tour Dates for 2022


 
INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PIANIST/VOCALIST
ELIANE ELIAS TRANSPORTS YOU TO QUIETUDE
ON CANDID RECORDS OCTOBER 14, 2022
 
Reigning Queen of Bossa Nova Returns to Brazilian Roots
Following 2022 GRAMMY® Win for Best Latin Jazz Album
 
(September 6, 2022) Hot off her 2022 GRAMMY® win for Best Latin Jazz Album for Mirror Mirror internationally celebrated virtuoso pianist, alluring vocalist, composer and arranger Eliane Elias returns to her Brazilian bossa nova roots on her new recording Quietude.

Latin Jazz Vocalist Roxana Amed to Release New Album “Unánime” on Sept. 16th, 2022 | LISTEN!


 
VOCAL PHENOM ROXANA AMED GATHERS LATIN AMERICAN ALL-STARS ON “UNÁNIME” OUT 9/16 ON SONY LATIN
 
When Ontology, her critically hailed 2021 debut U.S. recording, scored two Latin Grammy nominations in the Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Arrangement categories, Roxana Amed adroitly shifted her artistic focus for her next project.

Joe McCarthy’s New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band Returns with New Project “The Pan American Nutcracker Suite” on Sept. 9th, 2022


 
Joe McCarthy’s New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band Returns with The Pan American Nutcracker Suite, a Pan-Afro Reimagining of the Tchaikovsky Classic
 
If you think Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s remarkable, 1960 interpretation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet, The Nutcracker, is the final jazz word on the popular orchestral work, think again.

Latin Jazz Drum Legend Alex Acuña to Release New Album “Gifts” on Sept. 23rd, 2022 | WATCH VIDEO!


 
Former Weather Report Drummer Alex Acuña to Release Gifts, His First Album as a Leader in 17 Years.
 
The incredible journey of Alex Acuña has seen the renowned drummer-percussionist travel from his small rural hometown in Peru to being a first-call session drummer in the country’s capital city, Lima, then touring the United States with mambo king Pérez Prado, gigging in Las Vegas with Elvis Presley and ultimately touring internationally with Weather Report, the premiere fusion band of the mid-1970s.

Pianist Danilo Pérez & The Global Messengers to Release New Album “Crisálida” on March 18th, 2022


 
GRAMMY® Award-Winning Pianist,
Composer, Educator and Social Activist
Danilo Pérez Reaches New Artistic Heights with Crisálida,
Featuring His New Formidable Ensemble,
The Global Messengers
 
Available March 18 via Mack Avenue Records
PRE-ORDER NOW
 
GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist, composer and educator Danilo Pérez hopes to usher in a new era of enlightenment that will unite all of humanity with his epic new album, Crisálida, which in English translates to “chrysalis.”