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Luis Bonilla

If ever an artist could be called an octopus, Luis Bonilla is it. The California raised, Costa Rican trombonist, composer and arranger has sought out, taken in and mastered an incredible array of musical styles. His success as a sideman with such greats as McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Tom Harrell, Freddie Hubbard, Astrud Gilberto, Willie Colon and Toshiko Akiyoshi attests not only to the skill and variety of Bonilla’s talent, but also to a mind restlessly committed to exploring some of the most complex and demanding music of our time. Yet there is nothing rarefied about the Bonilla experience

A Percussion Paradise Inhabited By Searing, Soaring Sensations

by Keith Flint
September 19, 2026

From its solo conga introduction to its exuberant ensemble finale, Donny McCaslin's “Soar" leads listeners along a path of tension, anticipation, and release. The pleasures of the performance are immediate, yet its full gratification is tantalizingly delayed: rhythm first, then added texture, then a gathering rush of sound as each musician finds a place ...

Titanes del Trombón (Remastered)

By Doug Beavers

Label: Circle 9
Released: 2025
Track listing: Trombón Moderno (2025 Remaster) (feat. Frankie Vazquez, Conrad Herwig, Luis Bonilla & Reynaldo Jorge); 2 Esa Mujer (2025 Remaster) (feat. Carlos Cascante & Oscar Hernández); 3 Interludio I ‘Viaje’ (2025 Remaster); Voy Manejando (2025 Remaster) (feat. Conrad Herwig & Oscar Hernández); Tu No Sabes (feat. Frankie Vazquez & Eddie Montalvo); Interludio II ‘Viaje’ (2025 Remaster); Folhas Secas (2025 Remaster) (feat. Edsel Gomez); Empezando de Nuevo (2025 Remaster); Enigma (2025 Remaster) (feat. Héctor Aponte); Interludio III 'Viaje'; Take it to the Ozone (2025 Remaster) (feat. Dafnis Prieto, Zaccai Curtis, Thomas Marriott & Ivan Renta); Borandá (2025 Remaster) (feat. Carlos Cascante & Luisito Quintero); Viaje (2025 Remaster); Trombón Moderno (2025 Remaster) (feat. Frankie Vazquez, Conrad Herwig, Luis Bonilla & Reynaldo Jorge) [Radio Edit].

Rare Metals

By Dave Douglas

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Town Hall; Night Growl; Lush Life; Thread; Safeway; My Old Sign.

Jazz Pops/Pop Swings

By Luis Bonilla

Label: JMI Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Shining Star; Another Vision; Greedy; So Wrong; Elis; Fast Love; Where Is The Love?; Sco; Triumph; Tapestry

Fun Times

By Russell Scarbrough

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Max-Q; Spiral Song; The Culprit; Abandoned In Place; Something's Burning; Song Of The Northern Road; Needledrop; Startups; Something In The Moon; Splode.

New Releases, Birthday Celebrations For Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Miles Davis & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 5, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Walter Bishop Jr., Ellie Martin, Edward Simon, The JM Jazz World Orchestra, plus birthday shoutouts to Peggy Lee, Yoko Miwa, Caity Gyorgy, Rosemary Clooney, Nadje Noordhuis and Miles Davis among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live ...

Joe Fielder's Big Sackbut: Live In Graz

by Dan McClenaghan
June 6, 2020

Trombonist Joe Fielder offers up Joe Fielder's Big Sackbut--Live In Graz, the group's second recording, a follow-up to the 2012 eponymous Yellow Sound Label debut and 2013's Sackbut Stomp (Multiphonics Music). The line-up is three trombones (Ryan Keberle, Luis Bonilla and Fielder) and a tuba (Jon Sass), so it isn't hard to imagine what the sound ...

Hyuna Park: Her Morning Waltz

by Angelo Leonardi
April 15, 2020

Quest'album è il debutto della pianista coreana col suo trio, comprendente il contrabbassista del Colorado Myles Sloniker e il batterista austriaco Peter Traunmueller. La registrazione risale al 2018, anno di nascita dell'organico, che continua a esibirsi nei club dell'area di New York. Hyuna Park ha ottenuto il primo premio all'International Women in Jazz Festival ...

Red Hook Jazz Festival 2016

by Martin Longley
July 7, 2016

Red Hook Jazz Festival 2016 Urban Meadow Community Garden Red Hook, Brooklyn June 12 & 19, 2016 This ninth edition of the Red Hook Jazz Festival appeared to draw its biggest crowd yet. Not that it's a large- capacity event, but perhaps a setting close to the water's ...