Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have developed a worldview that has come...
Listening to this fourth iteration of the music produced by the Beny Esguerra and a team of musicians including Paul ‘Savilion’ De Francesco [of New Tradition...
For the greatest part of her life as a performing and recording artist, the composer and vocalist Lenka Lichtenberg has created a miraculously flawless discography spanning...
The album Joy by Ernesto Cervini may be the most ambitious work conceived of and executed by the drummer [multi-instrumentalist, if you consider that he is...
The potent language of Black American Music is in full force on Uptown in Orbit, featuring pianist Emmet Cohen and his magnificent trio comprising contrabassist Russell...
Diana Panton has long past the stage of being a “singer of boundless promise”. She is already a great artist. She has a reputation among her...
Young women musicians such as Katharine Timoney are a rarity. That’s because young musicians are not usually comfortable indulging in intense emotions; it’s not that they...
Catherine Marie Charlton doesn’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing… but it has the desired polyrhythmic effect all the time and...
It is not often than anyone – especially a guitarist – can pull off a recording that is packed, wall-to-wall with superheavyweight guitarists and bassists. But...
It seems as if every time we discover a composer whose music we would have known nothing – or very little – about, it is invariably...
