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Check out NPR's List of the Year's Best Jazz CDs | News

January 16, 2008

Album of the Week - Y el Guajeo, Alfredo Naranjo

January 16, 2008

Alfredo Naranjo Y El Guajeo Cacao Msica Pulling jazz and salsa into a unique mixture requires a balance between freedom and structure. Salsa recordings benefit from songs with tightly arranged forms. At times musicians follow commercially dictated norms while other settings allow for more unconventional approaches - yet the performance still follows a roadmap with little ...

Album of the Week - Ojala , Sofia Koutsovitis

January 16, 2008

Throughout its long history, jazz has split into many diverse pieces; as a result an artist wishing to establish a distinct voice needs to make a firm statement about culture. Modern artists start with traditional jazz, but eventually integrate their own voice into the music, requiring them to merge a set of cultural aesthetics with [...] ...

Focusing the Spotlight: A Little More About Layla Angulo

January 16, 2008

Revisiting: Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods, Dizzy Gillespie Y Machito

January 16, 2008

The Revisiting series features albums from the past that played a significant role in Latin Jazz history. The purpose of this series is to introduce new Latin Jazz listeners to important albums and look back at these albums in historical perspective. Each entry will jump to a different point in Latin Jazz history - this [...] ...

Avishai Cohen Brings the World to Jazz

January 16, 2008

Bassist and band leader Avishai Cohen doesn't know what to call his music. He mixes Middle Eastern influences from his native Israel with European classical, Latin and other styles to create an innovative form of jazz. In this JazzCorner.com Jazz Perspective, Reese Erlich talks with Cohen about his history in music, his International Vamp band and ...

LJC Community Conversation: What Should We Do Now?

January 16, 2008

LJC Community Conversations are designed to explore major ideas in the Latin Jazz world together as a community and inspire conversation through comments. My main motivator here is my belief that LJC readers hold a great deal of knowledge and passion around Latin Jazz, and I think that we can learn something from everyone. Whether [...] ...

Utopia Records is Proud to Introduce to the World Smooth Jazz Baritone Saxophonist Rebecca Buxton

January 16, 2008

Utopia Records Rebecca Buxton - An innovative jazz musician in command of her Baritone Saxophone. Rebecca is poised to take on the Smooth Jazz World with her bold, slick and strong sound. A taste of Rebecca's deep powerful resonance can be heard on Alfonzo Blackwell's latest CD Dance To This where she is featured on the ...

Lionel Loueke Interview on WBGO.org

January 16, 2008

Wynton Marsalis: Looking Forward and Looking Back

January 16, 2008

From '80s jazz wunderkind to 21st century institution, the virtuoso trumpeter and composer measures the music's enduring vitality By Alan Light Special to MSN Music Jan. 1, 2008 “There was a time when you could hardly find an acoustic bass player," says ...