Tag Archives: Latin Folk

Lots of the best Cuban jazz music artists have played in Irakere in the past many years, including altoist Paquito D’Rivera and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (before both individually defected). Pianist Chucho Valdes continues to be the orchestra’s longtime head, and its own music runs from Latin jazz and bop to …

The Bossa Três was the first instrumental band of the bossa nova. In 1961, Luís Carlos Vinhas (piano), Tião Neto (bass), and Edison Machado (drums) teamed up to create the trio. They visited the U.S. to accompany the dancers Lennie Dale, Martha Botelho, and Joe Benett around the Ed Sullivan …

Janeway plays electric powered and acoustic piano in Latin and contemporary jazz idioms. An excellent composer and arranger.

Willie Bobo was among the great Latin percussionists of his period, a relentless swinger for the congas and timbales, a flamboyant showman onstage, and an engaging if modestly endowed vocalist. He also produced serious inroads in to the pop, R&B and right jazz worlds, and he constantly stated that his …

Pianist and composer Danilo Pérez offers forged a broad route for himself and his music throughout his profession to date. Blessed in 1966 in Panama, Pérez, who relocated to NEW YORK, started playing piano at age group three. His dad was a bandleader and vocalist, and by enough time he …

A Brazilian group which uses Capoeira Angola — a warrior’s video game steeped in music and dance customs — as a car for sociopolitical reform as well as the preservation of Afro-Brazilian lifestyle. By 1995, Grupo de Capoeira Angola Pelourinho got set up offices in NY, Washington D.C., and Rio …

Grupo Montéz de Durango, probably the most famous professionals from the Pasito Duranguense, or the Durango Stage, a rhythm-driven cross of quebradita and merengue invented by Mexican-Americans in Chicago, the town from where in fact the users of Grupo Montéz de Durango hail, found achievement in both U.S. and Mexico …

Grupo Naidy, located in Cali, Columbia, play a marimba and drum music referred to as currulao, a strikingly African-inflected design which has flourished in the Pacific coastline of southern Columbia and northern Ecuador (the group’s repertoire also embraces juga, arrulo, salve, bunde, alabao, and canto de boga parts). Led by …

Completed musician Cyro Baptista provides played the entire selection of percussion instruments from his indigenous Brazil, in addition to a great many other world music instruments. Structured out of NY, he arrived on the Paquito d’Rivera discharge, on John Zorn’s film functions within the middle-’80s, and he continuing to seem …

The very first Spanish-speaking singing cowboy over the silver screen in Hollywood, Tito Guizar was Mexico’s response to Gene Autry, and rated highly enough to create films alongside Roy Rogers. In Mexico, nevertheless, he was a straight bigger star, getting legions of youthful ladies in a way comparable to Frank …