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Joaquin Nuñez: Ruta De La Clave

Read "Ruta De La Clave" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
July 8, 2025

Ruta de la Clave is everything a good recording should be: listenable, stimulating, thoughtful, a bit eclectic and, above all, musical. Joaquín Núñez and Habana Safari has set out to do a version of the “history of the clave." Of course, this is a unique vision, a distillation of Núñez's experiences as a Cuban-Canadian percussionist. But his overall goal is considerably greater, “a reinvention of Afro-Cuban jazz." That is a pretty tall order. Others will say ...

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Dayramir Gonzalez: The Grand Concourse

Read "The Grand Concourse" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 20, 2019

Siamo abituati al debutto di prodigiosi pianisti cubani ma Dayramir González non è solo questo. Come Fabian Almazan appartiene alla nuova generazione di strumentisti maturata negli Stati Uniti, capace di sofisticate sintesi orchestrali, coniugando le radici popolari ed etniche della terra d'origine, le forme del jazz ed evidenti riferimenti classici. Nato e cresciuto all'Avana in una famiglia di musicisti (il padre era un noto trombettista di Afro-Cuban Jazz), Dayramir ha iniziato a suonare il piano a 8 anni ...