Same Sky, Talented International Artists Come Together Through Digital Platform
Various Artists – Volume One Same Sky (Beyond Music, 2019) Beyond Music, the innovative digital platform designed to encourage and nurture international collaborations, has released…
Garifuna Collective, Uplifting Musical Traditions and Resilience
The Garifuna Collective – ABAN (Stonetree Records, 2019) The Garifuna Collective delivers an album where Garifuna musical traditions are combined with modern musical forms such…
Global Chaos Theories from the The Souljazz Orchestra
The Souljazz Orchestra – Chaos Theories (Strut Records, 2019) Canadian jazz collective The Souljazz Orchestra, led by songwriter and arranger Pierre Chrètien, combines a wide…
Artist Profiles: Brian Dunning
Brian Dunning was a professional flutist in Ireland, playing regular classical and jazz gigs, before arriving to the United States in 1977 to study at…
Artist Profiles: Markku Lepistö
Markku Lepistö, from southern Ostrobothnia, is one of Finland’s most dynamic accordionists, having been playing folk and dance music since age five. A graduate of…
Artist Profiles: Antonio Machin
One of the early legends of Cuban music, Antonio Machín led his own acoustic band in the 1920s, and eventually emigrated from the island, first…
Artist Profiles: V.K. Raman
V.K. Raman, one of the leading flutists in the Carnatic style of Music, started learning flute at the age of 9. At the age of…
Artist Profiles: Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Isaacs ranked as one of the true superstars of reggae music, with a career that spanned three decades and legions of loyal fans worldwide.…
Captivating Latin Jazz Tribute to John Coltrane
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…
Round ‘em Up
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…