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Jazzheads Jazz Festival Took Place In New York City On May 4-5, 2012
This year Jazzheads celebrates its 20th anniversary as a label. The first annual Jazzheads Jazz Festival took place at the Players Club in New York City on May 4-5, 2012. The Players Club is the beautiful 18th century townhouse that belonged to Edwin Booth, the great Shakespearean actor and brother to John Wilkes. The townhouse has ...
Carlos Jimenez / Mambo Dulcet: Red Tailed Hawk
by Dan Bilawsky
Latin jazz flute players aren't exactly commonplace, but artists like Dave Valentin, Nestor Torres, Bobby Porcelli and, more recently, Mark Weinstein have helped to widen this avenue of instrumental exploration. They've paved the way and opened up a world of possibilities for fine and feisty flautists of the present and future to flourish in danceable domains. ...
Carlos Jimenez & Mambo Dulcet: Red Tailed Hawk
by Edward Blanco
Lively danceable Latin music comes alive on flautist Carlos Jimenez and his Mambo Dulcet band's Red Tailed Hawk, presenting six originals and four covers on a landscape of hot Afro-Cuban rhythms. Jimenez and his group navigate through the high flying winds of the genre, incorporating elements of salsa and jazz in a decidedly shoulder-moving session of ...
El Cumbanchero
Album: El Cumbanchero
By Mark Weinstein
Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2011
Duration: 04:38
Eugene Holley Jr.'s Best Releases of 2011
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
At a time when Hispanics are the dominant minority in the United States, The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences has decided to eliminate the Latin Jazz category. This list is posted in solidarity with those who demand that the category be reinstated. Fabian Almazan ...
Jazz Brasil
Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2011
Track listing: I Mean You; Triste; Nefertiti; Brasil; Ruby My Dear; Sambrusco; Dawn's
Early Light; Memphis Underground; If You Never Come to Me; Isotope.
El Cumbanchero
Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2011
Track listing: El Cumbanchero; La Mulata Rumbera; Doña Olga; Aruancó; Av. Pinto Tapiro; Perla Marina; Armoniosos De Amalia; Danzón De Liz; Contigo En La Distancia.
Album of the Week: El Cumbanchero, Mark Weinstein
El Cumbanchero Mark Weinstein Jazzheads Cuba's musical history is vast and it holds a wide number of styles and approaches, but in many cases, Latin Jazz continues to investigate only a small slice of that musical horizon. In the early days of the style, Latin Jazz was built upon dance traditions, a ...
Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2011
by Dan Bilawsky
Another year is in the books, but the music created and/or released during these twelve months is still around, continuing to serve as a reminder of jazz's majesty. While some continue to complain that jazz is stagnant or at death's door, the finest albums released in 2011 say otherwise. I had the distinct pleasure of reviewing ...
Mark Weinstein: El Cumbanchero
by Dan Bilawsky
Exploring music with the intellect of an ethnomusicologist, the imagination of an artist, and the technical savvy and musical know-how to combine the two is no easy feat, but Mark Weinstein is more than capable of pulling it off. For the flautist's latest Latin feast, he turned his attention toward a fusion of jazz and charanga ...
