Tres Cubano

When Corinna Rottschy and I first met to discuss the project DANZÓN CUBANO, I felt that it would be a special collaboration. I never dreamt it would turn out to be one of the most fulfilling and enriching experiences that I’ve ever had. Furthermore, immortalising this project as an album is a dream come true. I have always loved working with an orchestra. My composition teacher, Mr. Tulio Peramo, told me that nothing compares to the feeling you experience when hearing your music being played by an orchestra for the very first time!

Esperanza Fernández - Canta a Saramago: Mi Voz en tu Palabra (2013) {DiscMedi Blau DM 5069-02}
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© 2013 DiscMedi Blau | DM 5069-02
Flamenco / World / Folk / Spain

ESPERANZA FERNANDEZ is currently one of the leading voices of flamenco. In its excellent faculty, and proven in countless concerts, we must add his extensive repertoire - from the dramatic to the most canasteros- siguiriya tangos and its versatility to lend their voice to very different musical aesthetics. On his new album he sings and makes music to poetry and prose literature Nobel, the Portuguese Jose Saramago.

Marinah - Afrolailo (2017) {Kasba Music KM00717 - Singer of Ojos de Brujo}
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Flamenco / Latin / Jazz / World Music / Reggae

'Afrolailo' is full of gay and combative rumba songs, which play comfortably between rumba, reggae and flamenco, between Afro styles and Latin music, between Cuba and hip-hop. In this adventure Marinah has been accompanied by a lot of colleagues and great musicians who already accompanied her in Ojos de Brujo, so we find Maxwell (beatbox), Javi Martín (bass), Carlos Sarduy (trumpet, piano, production) and Susana Medina (Chorus and flamenco dance) along with other collaborations such as Chicuelo (flamenco guitar), Muchacho Serviole (guitar rumbera), David Dominguez (flamenco percussion), Frank Durán (drums), Dany Noel , Julio Nahinim Carbonell (saxo) … Between the vocal collaborations, we also find diverse artistic aspects, among which the Mari de Chambao, the young Tears of Blood and Arianna stand out.

Latin Grammy winner Aymée Nuviola is back with a heartfelt tribute to the music and culture of her island. The singer just released an album and documentary titled A Journey Through Cuban Music (Top Stop Music) and talked to CHICA about this fascinating project. "When I meet with Cuban musicians, I reconnect with my roots," says Nuviola, who lives in Miami with her husband, and traveled to Cuba various times during the making of this production. "That's my origin, where I went to school and became known as an artist," she adds of her homeland.

The Stan Kenton Orchestra - Cuban Fire! (1956) {2019 RevOla CREVV 852}
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Jazz / Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Latin jazz / Afro-Cuban Music

While I have only recently become a Stan Kenton fan, I would recommend this album to ANYONE who appreciates jazz. It combines the hard-hitting brass that was Kenton's signature with the Latin rhythms (mentioned above) that swing nicely. The Johnny Richards arrangements and compositions really create an album that you will want to listen to all the way through – LOUDLY! Critics held mixed views of some of Kenton's work, but I have yet to hear of anyone who would give this less than five stars.