Results for "Mauricio Herrera"

Mauricio Herrera

Mauricio Herrera is one of the leading percussionists on New York’s Afro-Cuban jazz scene. He’s collaborated with some of the best jazz musicians of our time, including Stefon Harris, Nicholas Payton, David Sanchez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Christian Scott, and Yosvany Terry. But his connections to the sacred roots of Afro-Cuban music run deep, and he masterfully fuses traditional forms and techniques with an adventurous, wide-open approach. Growing up in the eastern province of Holguin, Cuba, Maruicio was exposed to the deep traditions of sacred and ritual music. His family is very musical, and at age 7 he started on violin, but by 14 began studying percussion, where he found his niche

Spellbound

By Bobby Rozario

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Peace Pilgrim; Spellbound; Escaping Alcatraz; Carmen's Lover; Heal Me; Gi Tana; Freedom; Sun Will Shine; Beat the Devil; Rudra; Stronger Together.

Spellbound

August 17, 2023

Album: Spellbound
By Bobby Rozario
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:26

Unquiet Respect

January 5, 2023

Album: More Touch
By Patricia Brennan
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:54

Standing by The Crossroads

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2022
Track listing: Standing by The Crossroads; Habana Blues Chronicle; Solitaria; Panal de Abejas; Picture Window; I Belong to You; Keep the Eyes on the Bull; San Isidro - Part I; San Isidro _ Part II; Song for Freedom; Yo Soy Lori Oba; No Man's Land.

More Touch

By Patricia Brennan

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Unquiet Respect; More Touch; Space For Hour; El Nahualli (The Shadow Soul); The Woman Who Weeps; Square Bimagic; Convergences; Robbin; Sizigia (Syzygy); And There Was Light.

Patricia Brennan: More Touch

by Mike Jurkovic
December 6, 2022

It's uncanny how More Touch, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan's scarily good follow-up to her head-turning debut Maquishti (Valley of Search, 2021) follows one around all day. Its essence is in the air, in the room, in the conversation. It sneaks around the corner and races down the stairs, out into the street, and breaks into any and ...

Plena

By Michael Eckroth

Label: Truth Revolution Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: And So It Goes; Summer Of Love and Discontent; Superspreader; Plena; Invernadero; Soul Cha; Exotic Particles; Rain Song.

Michael Eckroth Group: Plena

by Dan Bilawsky
December 21, 2021

Michael Eckroth had clear goals in mind for this project--"to create music that was lyrical, modern, true to its Afro-Latin roots, but never purist in its approach"--and he's accomplished his mission with gusto. Through Plena, this Grammy-nominated pianist/composer delivers a program of original music that, while acknowledging folkloric traditions, doesn't buy into their formal strictures and ...

Diluvio

By Robby Ameen

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Fast Eye; Cremant; Tempest Dance; Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127: Aria; The Drifter's Plan; Mixology; Into the Clear; Line for Lyons; Impressions.