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Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Grande-Terre

Read "Grande-Terre" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 21, 2024

Increasingly and with growing momentum, right up until he died at the young age of 55 in 2018, Roy Hargrove was a standard bearer for a new kind of African American jazz. The recipe embraced a variety of styles--jazz, Afro-Cuban music, funk, hip hop and soul--and it influenced a generation of musicians in jazz and beyond. But Hargrove never abandoned jazz, the foundation stone of his style. Instead he regarded other genres as part of a rainbow ...

Music Industry

The Man Behind The Sessions: Why Artists, Producers, And Studios Keep Calling Jose Luis Castro

Source: Frank Gazerro, Journalist
May 28, 2026

In music, the most influential artists are not always the ones with their faces on a billboard. Oftentimes, they are the people who get the call before the call — the ones artists trust to compose music for their albums, the ones producers trust with deadlines, and the ones studios hand the keys to when they need someone to lead a project. They are the collaborators who can walk into a room, understand the artist, the business, the sound, the ...
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Recording

Album of the Week - Telegrafa-a Sin Hilo, Jose Luis Quintana - Changuito

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2008

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Recording

Venezuelan Label Cacao Musica Enters Us Market with 11/27 Releases by Changuito, "El Negro" & Alfredo Naranjo

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
October 29, 2007

The Caracas, Venezuela-based jazz, world and Latin music label Cacao Musica enters the North American market with the November 27th release of CDs by the legendary percussionist Changuito, the prolific drummer Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez, virtuoso vibraphonist Alfred Naranjo, the folk singer Vidal Colmenares from Venezuela's “llano" region and the alternative pop band Santos Viejos (Old Saints). Cacao's audiophile CDs and associated DVDs will initially be available in selected Barnes & Noble stores around the U.S. and subsequently in other ...
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