Caminando, single by Anthony Almonte with Stevie Van Zandt. A high-profile collab, the gentle Latin jazz piece blends traditional salsa with pop and rock and melodic writing. Almonte’s vocals make it very...
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...
Hearts a Liar, single by Andy Bell with Debbie Harry. From the forthcoming album Ten Crowns, the song chronicles deep loss. “You said I’d always be in your heart / Your heart’s...
Dawn, album by ALBA Musik. Powerhouse vocalist Bárbara Martínez and master guitarist Albert Alabedra have blended the rhythms of flamenco with salsa, pop, funk, blues – you name it, in a hypnotic...
Sin Fronteras, single/video by ALBA Musik. Electric, urgency, joyful, and rocking – the flamenco fusion of New Yorker Barbara Martínez and Spaniard Albert Alabedra, blending it with salsa, pop, funk, and Latin...
FIRMPRO 2022 Day 2 really ramped up with a Keynote by former Menudo member and global star Draco Rosa and then a showcase of 7 bands. Draco talked about healing and music...
It started when I got invited to a small jazz concert on Saturday at the La Cochera Cultural. Those of you who read Spanish understand that it means the cultural garage, which...
My Friends, single by Binx. Binx does it again, contemporary pop that is both and earworm and a message about bullying both online and offline. Self-produced with Mada Atoms it bops along...
