Various Artists – Volume One Same Sky (Beyond Music, 2019) Beyond Music, the innovative digital platform designed to encourage and nurture international collaborations, has released…
The Garifuna Collective – ABAN (Stonetree Records, 2019) The Garifuna Collective delivers an album where Garifuna musical traditions are combined with modern musical forms such…
The Souljazz Orchestra – Chaos Theories (Strut Records, 2019) Canadian jazz collective The Souljazz Orchestra, led by songwriter and arranger Pierre Chrètien, combines a wide…
Poncho Sanchez – Trane’s Delight (Concord Picante, 2019) The great conguero (conga player) Poncho Sanchez, one of the masters of American Latin Jazz, has a…
Time for another overview of CDs that have fortuitously found their way into my possession, and, even more fortuitously, that I’ve enjoyed enough to spread…
Isaac Birituro and The Rail Abandon – Kalba (Wah Wah 45s, 2019) Kalba brings together Ghanaian gyil (xylophone) maestro Isaac Birituro and British producer, sound…
Daniela Soledade – A Moment of You (Blue Line Music Records, 2019) A Moment of You is the debut album from talented Florida-based Brazilian singer-songwriter Daniela…
Los Wembler’s de Iquitos – Visión del Ayahuasca (Barbès Records, 2019) Veteran Peruvian band Los Wembler’s de Iquitos is still active 50 years after its…
Benedicte Maurseth – Benedicte Maurseth (Heilo, 2019) This self-titled album features exquisite solo performances on the hardanger fiddle by Norwegian fiddler and composer Benedicte Maurseth.…
Martin Hayes and Brooklyn Rider – The Butterfly (In A Circle Records, 2019) The Butterfly brings together five extraordinary masters of bowed instruments, Irish fiddler…