Tag Archives: Latin music

Orlando Poleo’s Sangre Negra

Posted on 15th July 2024 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Hailing from Venezuela, Orlando Poleo is one of the artists at the forefront of World Jazz in Europe. This is not the type of Afro-Jazz of Tito Puente, nor that of Hugh Masakela, but … Continue reading →

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Edward Simon’s Femeninas: Songs of Latin American Women

Posted on 7th June 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

I first encountered the song “Gracias A La Vida” on the iconic album of the same name by Joan Baez, when one of my university Spanish teachers played it in class. It was my introduction to the sublime joys of … Continue reading →

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Rough Guides’ 100 Essential CDs: Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestly’s Jazz, and Sue Steward’s Latin

Posted on 13th February 2022 by David Kidney

What a great idea! What a fantastic job! Sit around the house, listen to music and choose the 100 CDs that define a style, and then write about it. Your choice becomes etched in stone, or at least on paper, … Continue reading →

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Ani Cordero’s Querido Mundo

Posted on 22nd March 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

Ani Cordero is a Puerto Rican-American singer, songwriter and musician (and a Latin American music researcher) living in New York. I became a fan of her eponymous alt-Latin indie-rock band in the early 2000s, which led me to the Mexican … Continue reading →

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Daymé Arocena’s Cubafonía

Posted on 4th March 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

There’s a lot more to Latin music than the cumbia, salsa, samba and Cuban son that North Americans are familiar with. Cuban diva Daymé Arocena covers a lot of sonic territory on her second album, Cubafonía. Drawing on the rich … Continue reading →

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Stan Getz’s live recordings from the vaults

Posted on 20th February 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

Resonance Records continues its unparalleled string of historic jazz releases with two packages that document a week of shows at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner in 1976 by Stan Getz and his quartet, with special guest João Gilberto. Stan Getz and … Continue reading →

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Three Latin jazz excursions

Posted on 22nd September 2015 by Gary Whitehouse

It’s been a long, hot summer where I live, and it’s lingering into the fall. Latin jazz is perfect for hot weather, and here are three releases I’ve been enjoying. All of them are just a little bit different from … Continue reading →

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Calexico’s Edge of the Sun

Posted on 7th April 2015 by Gary Whitehouse

Calexico’s Edge of the Sun is packed full of the kind of music that made me a longtime fan of the Tucson band. To me it’s one of Calexico’s more successful albums in quite a while. The songs have strong … Continue reading →

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