Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

Cuban musicians have been dispersed around the world for more than half a century while seeking freedom and opportunity, but the family-like ties binding them together endure. Those ties and brilliant ...

Grammy-nominated pianist Roberto Fonseca will bring his La Gran Diversión tour to Australia in March 2026. The Cuban music ...

Carlos Miguel Prieto shouldn’t need much warm up before leading the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra this weekend. The Mexican conductor will kick off the season with a flamboyantly percussive ...

Eduardo "Eddie" Palmieri, the Afro Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer who died Aug. 6, didn't merely bring something new to the jazz table. You might say he completely reset the table. His ...

Just two weeks before his jazz concert Thursday, Paul Johnston had an idea. Johnston coaches Eastern Illinois University’s ...

Growing up in Havana, Cuba, Chucho Valdés was exposed to music almost everywhere he went in the country. His mother was a singer and piano teacher, while his father, Bebo Valdés, was one of Cuba’s ...

On a recent Wednesday night, 19 musicians fit snugly into the far end of the FB Lounge on 106th Street, just off Third Avenue in Harlem. Trombone slides abutted one wall; a pianist backed up against ...

The holiday theme for Jazz Piano Christmas this year was definitely for the adventurous among us. Our three performers placed familiar holiday songs inside masterfully crafted clusters of sound and ...

In addition to the already-announced Juilliard Jazz Orchestra concerts (Music of Duke Ellington on October 2, the Orchestra's Birdland debut on February 19, Music of ...