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In the tender age of 20, NY vocalist Jane Monheit was the first runner-up in the 1998 Thelonious Monk Institute vocal competition, winning a $10,000 scholarship or grant to help expand her music education. Judges couldn’t precisely place her audio, which blended organic elegance having a powerful yet impressively managed …

Though she usually wanted to be considered a singer, Chilean jazz vocalist Claudia Acuña didn’t discover jazz music until she was 15. Rather the Santiago indigenous grew up performing traditional folk tunes and current pop strikes, but once a number of the city’s jazz followers noticed her perform, they informed …

Since his arrival in NEW YORK in the tail-end of ’90s, Cuban immigrant Dafnis Prieto has loved a reputation to be a flexible and broad-minded drummer, percussionist, composer, and arranger who is able to handle post-bop and Latin jazz along with the occasional avant-garde gig. Prieto brings more information on …