Salsa and bolero singer and composer Cheo Feliciano died in an early morning car crash Thursday, April 17, 2014 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Reports…
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Cuban Percussionist Armando Peraza Dies at 89
Music fans spanning from Cuban and Afro-Cuban to Latin and Latin jazz to Latin inspired rock are mourning the loss of Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza.…
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by John Powell Rio 2 (Sony Music, 2014) Music composer John Powell ponders, “If you think about music and where it…
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Groupa Silent Folk (Footprint Records, 2014) One of the irresistible charms of world music is its promise – its promise of a journey. Nothing delivers…
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Sousou and Maher Cissoko Turn Out A First Class Musical Experience
Sousou and Maher Cissoko Africa Moo Baalu (ARC Music, 2014) With the 2008 Adouna and the 2011 Stockholm-Dakar recordings to their credit, Sousou and Maher…
View More Sousou and Maher Cissoko Turn Out A First Class Musical ExperienceEnthralling Intermingling Of Flamenco, Classical and Jazz
Jerez Texas Viento y Marea (2014) Savvy, sophisticated and brutally cool, Jerez Texas’s latest offering Viento y Marea scorches the flamenco jazz label with an…
View More Enthralling Intermingling Of Flamenco, Classical and JazzSuperb and Masterful Hafez Nazeri
Hafez Nazeri Rumi Symphony Project Cycle 1 Untold (Sony Classical, 2014) There are music critics out there that sit back stone faced like some disinterested…
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Daby Toure and Skip McDonald Call My Name (Real World Records, 2009/U.S. release 2014) Music fans looking for a little sunny bounce might want to…
View More Dynamic PairingUtterly Evocative and Imaginative Anne Hytta
Anne Hytta Draumsyn (Carpe Diem Records, 2014) Stepping off the well-worn path of world music, I don’t often come across solo hardanger fiddle (a Norwegian…
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