Hungry March Band – Running Through with the Sadness (Imaginator Records, 2018) Hungry March Band has the format of a classic American marching band with…
The Wild Brass of Downtown New York City
Tag: Jazz
Artist Profiles: Renaud Garcia-Fons
Renaud Garcia-Fons was born December 24, 1962 in Paris, France. He is a double bass phenomenon of Spanish-French origin who studied classical music and received…
Artist Profiles: Mino Cinelu
Born in Saint-Cloud, France, in 1957, Mino Cinelu played guitar when he was a child, calling it his “first love.” As a youth, he visited…
Artist Profiles: Michel Camilo
Michel Camilo was born into a musical family and played accordion before switching to piano at the age of nine. In 1979, he arrived to…
Interview with Valeria Matzner
Uruguayan jazz vocalist and songwriter Valeria Matzner has a new album recorded in Canada titled Anima. She incorporates exciting Brazilian and electronic music elements. Valeria…
Meaningful Brazilian and African-American Alchemy
Alexandra Jackson – Legacy and Alchemy (2018) Legacy and Alchemy is an impressive 2-CD album by American jazz and soul vocalist, pianist and arranger from…
Artist Profiles: Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Gonzalo Julio González Fonseca, known artistically as Gonzalo Rubalcaba, was born in Havana, Cuba, May 27, 1963, to a musical family that included his father,…
Artist Profiles: Aruán Ortiz
A former classically trained violist and pianist, Aruán Ortiz was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1973, and began his studies at the age of…
Artist Profiles: Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small village in the province of Havana, Cuba on November 6, 1949. Arturo started playing music at age…
Artist Profiles: Luis Muñoz
Luis Muñoz, composer, arranger and percussionist, was born in San Jose, Costa Rica. Coming from a very musical family, Luis showed an early interest in…