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Home » Music » Song of the Day Buy Album Album Title: Caminos: A Latin American Landscape Label: Self Produced Released: 2026 Sign in to view listen count ‘Nevando en Camagüey’, from our album ‘Caminos - a Latin American Landscape’, is an original song based on an inside joke between my aunts in Cuba. It is a captivating title, since it never snows in Camagüey. The lyrics speak about this beautiful city and region of Cuba.

Although the words "jazz" and "bassoon" rarely appear in the same sentence, that is something North Carolina-based jazz bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz would like to help change. Yes, Rabinowitz is a jazz musician, and the bassoon is his instrument of choice, which must have led to some interesting conversations: "Hey, would you like to join my jazz quartet?" "I might. What instrument do you play?" "I play the bassoon." "The bassoon? Like in a symohony orchestra?

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Tara Minton: The Devil Invites You To Dance By View read count With themes from Aztec mythology and Latin American traditional dance, Tara Minton's The Devil Invites You To Dance follows a soul's journey through the underworld of shadows and desire. The Australian harpist, vocalist and composer wrote the album over two weeks in Mexico City's Coyoacán borough, immersing herself in its culture, music, street art and dance.

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Morning over Lake Tahoe arrived as if nothing had happened. The lake was still that impossible cobalt blue, the pines still motionless in the cold, high air, the far Sierra ridgelines still cut sharp against a pale gold sky. But inside House B, the mood had altered completely. The place no longer felt like a retreat. It felt inhabited in a new and irreversible way, as though the walls themselves knew there was no going back.

Home » Jazz Articles » Profile » The Discreet Charm of Tete Montoliu By View read count In 1947 tenor saxophonist Don Byas, a transplant from America following a tour of Europe, joined a society orchestra—complete with strings—to play dates in Spain.

"Best guitarist" lists are inherently subjective—often nonsensical. They rank the unrankable, folding popularity, technique, cultural impact, sales, and personal taste into a single hierarchy. This list takes a different approach, acknowledging thirty guitarists who transformed the instrument itself: they created new techniques, pioneered fresh concepts, expanded its sonic vocabulary, and changed how those who followed them played. Each left the guitar different from how they found it.

Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » Folk and Futurism with Sofia Rei By View read count Click the play button to listen Argentine singer, composer and producer Sofia Rei talks about leaving Buenos Aires and rediscovering the music of home, moving beyond the boundaries of jazz, embracing electronics and production, and learning from collaborators and students.

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Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » Elsa Nilsson, Miles Okazaki, and Andrew Cyrille By View read count Click the play button to listen This program features recent music by Elsa Nilsson and Miles Okazaki and older work by Terje Rypdal and Andrew Cyrille.

Highlights include a John Coltrane Centennial Concert, the John McNeil Memorial Concert, including residency concerts with Dave Holland and Gordon Beeferman, and a master class with Gaia Wilmer The Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts departments at New England Conservatory (NEC) present a vibrant fall season filled with concerts, master classes, jam sessions and other events. Nearly all NEC events are free, and many will be livestreamed.