Eleazar “Chuco” Soto is an experimental jazz saxophonist, composer, producer, and empresario based in the Lake Chapala area of Mexico, near Guadalajara. For as long as I have known him, he and...
I returned last week from a three-week music tour of Spain, mostly Flamenco, but some jazz and kora music. We visited flamenco clubs, festivals, schools, parties, and we saw a lot, mostly...
Nacho Cano has put together a show that is so good, so big, and so inspirational that if you don’t see it in Mexico City, I suspect you will see it in...
We had a great weekend for music. Three nights in a row at three different venues and three different types of music. We started off at our favorite Italian restaurant run by...
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone, single by Zora. I was planning to recommend Zora’s latest release Filter (Live), which I still do recommend – when I ran across her rendition of ...
Rumberas, album by Las Migras. This is not so much an album as it is an adventure, a trip through many musical landscapes and flamenco environments. Las Migras – Carolina Fernández “La...
What was billed as Trama y Urdimbre (Warp and Weft), a fund-raising concert of traditional music turned into a joyful dance party with audience members joining the zapetado dancers on the...
There is a great deal of creativity now in regional Mexican, national Mexican, and Spanish language music, and to my mind, most of it is coming from women. And bands led by...
