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Latin Jazz Conversations: Victor Garcia (Part 3)
Most great musicians simply know that they will have a career in music, and that inner belief drives them into a fierce momentum. Even as children, they are drawn to their instrument consistently, spending more time playing music than any other activity. By the time they reach their teens, most driven musicians have found a specific ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Victor Garcia (Part 2)
Many elements effect the make-up of a musical scene, and as each piece evolves, so does the overall scene. The community of musicians within a city stays in a constant state of flux as artists come in and out of an area. When an important musical mainstay leaves the scene, the total artistic community feels ripples ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Victor Garcia (Part 1)
The history of jazz is broad and varied, staged in various locations across the United States; strangely enough, the history of Latin Jazz is written in one area. During the birth of jazz, Jelly Roll Morton claimed the Latin Tinge was an essential part of the music, a fact which was de-emphasized until the Big 3 ...
Album of the Week: Pucusana, Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet
Pucusana Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Saponegro Reecords Transformation is an inevitable reality in the jazz world; regardless of where an artist starts musically, their sound will change throughout their journey. There are too many factors that creep into a musician's life throughout their career—at some point, something will inspire new directions in ...
Overlooked Treasures: Something Old, Something New
Really getting a sense of the bigger picture of Latin Jazz history requires a lot of listening, digging up music from both the past and the present. Many musicians built a solid foundation for the style over the past hundred years, and since the forties and fifties, much of that was caught on recordings. A deep ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 3)
Pianist Eddie Palmieri took shifted his direction in the nineties, building upon the sound that he'd spent his career creating and pushing it in a jazz direction. Inspired by his brother Charlie, a busy pianist in New York's Latin music scene, Palmieri immersed himself in the Latin dance music world as a child. The draw of ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 2)
The first steps into a career as a bandleader offers a musician a choice—should they follow in the footsteps of their mentors or forge their own path? Retracing the steps of a teacher always serves as the safe route for a new bandleader. They can draw upon what they know, structure their work around defined models, ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 1)
The lives of legendary Latin Jazz artists always recount themselves like a master class in the major events of music history. When these musicians experience each historical landmark, they simply seem like the ups and downs of daily life. Looking at these events in retrospect, we place the weight of history upon them, giving them significance ...
Reflecting Upon Max Salazar (1932 - 2010): What His Words and Actions Meant for Latin Music
The Latin music world lost a long time champion this past weekend, as Max Salazar passed away on Sunday, September 19, 2010. Born on April 17th, 1932 in New York, Salazar found an affinity for Afro-Cuban music at a young age, but didn't really pursue his interests professionally until the late sixties. He began working as ...
Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: Jack Costanzo
Many people have contributed toward the spread of Latin Jazz around the world, pushing the music into the public through a variety of means. Some people have taken a challenging path, sticking steadfastly to their roots, taking their music to the public as a cultural expression. These artists keep the history of the music alive, but ...
