Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Resonance Works will present ¡Tumbao! A Celebration of Afro-Latin Music, which ...
The big band is to jazz what the symphony orchestra is to classical music and, for a composer, an instrument of unmatched power with a rich palette of sounds to match. But that is only part of what ...
In mid-December, most of Arturo O’Farrill’s 19-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra lined the aisles of Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse while performing the premiere of his three-part suite “Mundoagua.” ...
As with any music that is soundly constructed around African rhythms, All About Jazz is impossible to listen to without being captivated by the infectious beats geared for dancing and grooving. Kojato ...
A musician friend whose opinion I greatly respect shared with me that he enjoys listening to Pulsion, the fourth release by the Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra (ALVO), in two layers: The frothy ...
Summertime is being celebrated with free music and art as Staten Island Urban Center presents Safe in the City with Indie band Afro Dominicano on Friday, June 21, at Tompkinsville Park from 5 p.m. to ...
Better than: Sitting at home, twitching with anger because Time Warner denied me the chance to watch the Knicks lose to the Nuggets in double-overtime. It was way past union curfew at Symphony Space ...
There’s a new festival coming to town, and it’s like nothing the District has seen before. Spearheaded by Afro-Latin party planners Adobo and Broccoli City, the one-day Tamarindo Festival will debut ...
A lot of Bay Area salsa nights feature DJs spinning the classics by Celia Cruz and Willie Colón, so it’s a rare treat to see not one but three high-caliber ensembles playing both traditional and ...
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...
The big band is to jazz what the symphony orchestra is to classical music, and an instrument of unmatched power for a composer – with a rich palette of sounds to match. But that is only part of what ...