The much anticipated new smooth latin jazz release from the one & only pianist Joseph Diamond is finally here! Following the projects, “Not Your Typical New Yorker (1999)”, “Island Garden (2002)” & his recent sudden passing on August 28th, 2008 (please visit his website for more details), comes “Keep Your …
Caribbean Jazz Project Wins Latin GRAMMY® Award Caribbean Jazz Project–Afro Bop Alliance Claims Best Latin Jazz Album Cleveland-based Heads Up International Up (a division of Concord Music Group), one of the world’s premier jazz and world music labels, is proud to announce that the Latin Recording Academy has awarded the Caribbean …
IN TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOSSA NOVA, PIANIST/VOCALIST ELIANE ELIAS RELEASES HER MUCH-ANTICIPATED CD “BOSSA NOVA STORIES”ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS, JANUARY 13, 2009Eliane’s Bossa Nova Stories celebrates 50 years of one of the world’s most instantly recognized musical traditions and pays homage to the genre’s forerunners – Antonio Carlos …
Cuban Piano Legend Bebo ValdésNominated for Latin GrammyFor Best Instrumental Album,Live at the Village Vanguard Due September 30 on Callé 54 RecordsValdés Has Previously WonTwo Grammy AwardsAnd Five Latin Grammy Awards;This Would Be His Eighth in Six YearsThe New York Times’ raved in this past Sunday’s Playlist: “In November 2005 …
Milton Nascimento & The Jobim TrioCelebrate 50 Years of Bossa Novawith the Release of Novas Bossas Tom Jobim used to say that Milton Nascimento was the only singer capable of reaching the original pitches of his compositions. Story has it that it was in the town of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, …
On Shake Away, Downs takes listeners on a journey that’s both intensely personal and vividly universal. Recorded in New York and Mexico City, the songs range from the pointed “Minimum Wage” to the mystical “Silent Thunder” to a cover of Lucinda Williams’ “I Envy the Wind” in English and Spanish …
On the Verge of His 90th Birthday, Bebo Valdés (Accompanied by Javier Colina) Releases the Much-Anticipated Album, “Live at the Village Vanguard” on September 2, 2008 According to the Dictionary of Latin Jazz written by Nat Chediak and edited by Fernando Trueba, Bebo Valdés was born on 9th October …
On July 10, 2008Kroon-A-Tune Records PresentsPercussionist Steve Kroon’s Third Solo Album El Mas Alla (Beyond)El Mas Alla Features A Who’s Whoof New York City’s Vibrant Latin Jazz SceneAfter three decades of lending his remarkable percussive skills to dozens of the most popular pop music, R&B and jazz artists of our …
You can ask a roomful of jazz fans about Grammy Award-winning saxophonist David Sánchez and the ensuing buzz will be filled with exultant praise for one of the finest saxophonist of his generation. “Cultural Survival” is the newest album from critically-acclaimed saxophonist David Sánchez. With this, his 8th overall album …
CARIBBEAN JAZZ PROJECT JOINS THE AFRO BOP ALLIANCE IN A POWERFUL LATIN JAZZ COLLABORATION New Recording Features Big Band Arrangements Of Classic CJP Tracks The Caribbean Jazz Project, the Latin jazz collective of vibraphonist David Samuels, steel pan drummer Andy Narell and saxophonist Paquito d’Rivera, crafted their first recordings …