Brooks Geiken
A trio of varied, high quality jazz releases: “Entre Amigos”, “Strange Times”, and “Three Visitors”.
A trio of jazz albums that dazzle in surprising ways.
Three guitarists — Bill Banfield, Ray Obiedo, and Lee Ritenour — release superb albums.
Any aficionado of Brazilian music and jazz will find plenty to be delighted by in these three discs.
A trio of Latin-themed jazz albums that range from the best of the year to an uneven debut effort.
Film/Album Review: “Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums” — A Superb Documentary About a Brilliant Artist
Part of what makes pianist Omar Sosa such a fascinating (and successful) musician is how his complex music constantly dances back and forth, between charming the mind and charging up the body.
This is my kind of music, a tight latin jazz outfit that embraces great horn charts and explosive percussion.
Throughout this superb live album, percussionist Gustavo Cortiñas allows his fellow band members an enormous amount of space, and that is welcome because of their high level of musicianship.
A death is routinely at the center of Claudia Piñeiro’s fiction, but the corpse sparks provocative questions about the way things are, not just an investigation into finding the murderer.
Big band leader Arturo O’Farrill points out that “Santiago Brooklyn Santiago” makes a forceful argument that the embargo between Cuba and the United States should be done away with.
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