Jazz Articles about Celia Cruz

About Celia Cruz

Radio & Podcasts

Patricia Brennan, Miho Hazama, Boz Scaggs, Hannah Gill, Rich Siegel, Josie Falbo, Steve Houghton, Tom Ricci & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 3, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Rich Siegel, Josie Falbo, Steve Houghton, Tom Ricci, Patricia Brennan, Miho Hazama, Boz Scaggs and Hannah Gill, with birthday shoutouts to Celia Cruz (100!), Jodi Proznick, Lakecia Benjamin, Emily Braden, Jane Bunnett, Jimmy Heath and lyricist Fran Landesman, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place is in the Groove. ...

Multiple Reviews

Celia Cruz: La Reina y Su Corte

by Richard J Salvucci
April 5, 2025

However complicated “Latin Jazz" may seem--ethnically, rhythmically, politically, culturally--guess again. It is more so. Even the term “Latin" irritates some players, notably Arturo Sandoval, who has the chops, the cred, and the ethnicity to be irritated. Because, Latin, he says, is heard only in Church. Well, Sandoval is at least half right, but for the wrong reason. The term was invented by a French economist, Michel Chevalier, in the 1830s to cement France's claim to have something in common with ...