Scoperto da Carla Bley nel 1979, quand'era ancora studente diciannovenne, e rimasto nei suoi gruppi per tre anni, Arturo O'Farrill ne celebra la memoria con quest'album ambizioso, che raccoglie due ...

On a Wednesday night in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, four vocalists rehearse an arrangement of Cuban singer Celia Cruz, accompanied by a pianist to their right. Through these weekly rehearsals, Stanford ...

When pianist, composer, and teaching master Yae-Seul Kim—known to the jazz world as Srisley—touches the keys, listeners are instantly transported to a captivating landscape of sound. Through a deeply ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its “Mother Africa” season with the world premiere of “Afro!,” a new commission by managing and ...

Since Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo birthed "Manteca" in the '40s just as Cuban musicians like Machito were shaking up New York's jazz scene, Afro-Cuban jazz has continued to entice and fascinate ...

Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...

If the ground trembles a bit around the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday, February 9, don’t blame the State Road 836 construction project down the street. With an as-of-now sold-out house and a trio of ...

In mid-December, most of Arturo O’Farrill’s 19-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra lined the aisles of Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse while performing the premiere of his three-part suite “Mundoagua.” ...

Kenyan saxophonist, recording artiste, and lawyer Analo Kanga is on a mission to reimagine Afro jazz in a format that is palatable to a fanbase comprising millennials and Gen Zs. “Afrobeats, amapiano, ...

Manu Dibango, the afro-jazz great behind hits including “Soul Makossa,” died Tuesday morning (March 24) from COVID-19, the BBC and AFP report. He was 86. “A voice raises from far away,” a statement on ...

July and August of this year will be the months for free jazz, as the free Jazz Trail Concert Series returns for its third year. Hosted by the Kupferberg ...