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Ismael Vergara

Camilo Valencia / Richard Bravo: Made in Miami

by Dan Bilawsky
February 6, 2023

Miami is a melting pot where people and musics of all stripes share space and influence, cross-pollinating to create a sound and culture like no other. That fact provides the foundation for this upbeat collection. Blending elements sourced from numerous musical styles and languages including salsa, pop, samba, jazz and R&B, among others, multi-instrumentalist Camilo Valencia ...

Esperanzas / Hopes

Label: Sony Latin
Released: 2022
Track listing: Que Felicidad; Esperanzas; Encadenados; How High the Moon; Don't Go Anywhere; Morning /Una Manana; Osvaldo; Petite Fleur; Mis Recuerdos.

Negroni's Trio: Esperanzas / Hopes

by Edward Blanco
March 8, 2022

The three-time Latin Grammy-nominated group Negroni's Trio unveils their eleventh album titled Esperanzas / Hope, offering a host of consistently bright and sizzling Latin rhythms over vocals and augmented instrumentals featuring other players all on a pallet of six originals and three cover songs. Considered one of the finest trio bands on the jazz landscape today, ...

Ruben Caban: Shafted

by Edward Blanco
July 17, 2019

Puerto Rican trombonist Ruben Caban makes a splash with the Latin jazz shaded Shafted, his first own-name album. The disc is full of grit and swagger and offers a host of original compositions sure to shake them bones. A professor of jazz trombone at Florida International University as well as Miami-Dade and Broward colleges, Caban is ...

Greg Diaz & The Art of Imagination Jazz Orchestra: Begin the Agora

by Jack Bowers
October 17, 2018

At a time when many contemporary big bands are eager to brush aside the past and “break new ground," it's always a pleasure to welcome an ensemble that honors and espouses jazz tradition with no appreciable loss of savoir-faire or, well, imagination. Begin the Agora, the debut recording by saxophonist Greg Diaz's Florida-based Art of Imagination ...

Native Tongue II

By Kam Falk

Label: Falkreations Music (BMI)
Released: 2016
Track listing: Soul Safari One Last Chance Mirage I'm Not Your Fool Heart of a Soldier Trails of Virga School of Life Pretending Georgetown Heaven is Shining