• Latin Jazz This Week (5/30/11 - 6/5/11)

    Updated: 2011-05-30 14:00:07
    Latin Jazz This Week will bring you a weekly look into news from the Latin Jazz world. You’ll find new releases, recommended performances, web finds, and more. You can check out some current sounds in the Listening Center tab at the top of the page. Performance dates will be kept in the Live Latin [...]

  • Letters To NARAS: Doug Beavers Writes About The Latin Jazz Grammy

    Updated: 2011-05-28 14:00:46
    On Wednesday April 6th, The National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced a “restructuring” of The Grammy Awards, a move that included the elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy. This unfortunate decision undermines the integrity of Latin Jazz and disregards its importance as a major piece of the cultural landscape in the United [...]

  • Los Angeles Musicians Protest The Elimination Of The Latin Jazz Grammy

    Updated: 2011-05-27 14:00:24
    A unified community full of strength and conviction can overcome any odds when they join together, a fact currently being proved as musicians from the Latin Jazz world and beyond battle the “restructuring” of the Grammys by NARAS. At first glance, this struggle may reflect a bit of a David and Goliath scenario, with [...]

  • Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: Magos Herrera

    Updated: 2011-05-25 14:00:33
    For decades, jazz musicians have drawn upon a cherished set of standards to fill their repertoire, but the changing identity of the 21st century musician has brought a whole new collection of tunes to the forefront. Younger musicians raised in the United States have turned their attention towards melodies found in current pop music. [...]

  • Complete List Of 17 Latin Jazz Grammy Winners (1995 - 2011)

    Updated: 2011-05-24 14:00:56
    In 1995, the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences fixed a tragic error by establishing a Grammy Award that recognized the work of Latin Jazz artists. After spending 36 years ignoring the impressive artistic output of musicians that blended the improvisatory leanings of jazz with Caribbean and South American culture, NARAS created an [...]

  • Latin Jazz This Week (5/23/11 - 5/29/11)

    Updated: 2011-05-23 14:00:20
    Latin Jazz This Week will bring you a weekly look into news from the Latin Jazz world. You’ll find new releases, recommended performances, web finds, and more. You can check out some current sounds in the Listening Center tab at the top of the page. Performance dates will be kept in the Live Latin [...]

  • Students Prepare for Mariachi Competition

    Updated: 2011-05-20 20:46:20
    Watch Kingsville students prepare for the 4th Annual Corpus Christi Mariachi Music Fest vocal competitions tomorrow at 9 a.m. at the Wolfe Recital Hall at Del Mar College. They are free and open to the public. Students from Kingsville, San Antonio, Premont, La Gloria, Edinburg, and Corpus Christi will be ...

  • Letters To NARAS: The Jazz Education Network Writes About The Latin Jazz Grammy

    Updated: 2011-05-20 14:00:54
    On Wednesday April 6th, The National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced a “restructuring” of The Grammy Awards, a move that included the elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy. This unfortunate decision undermines the integrity of Latin Jazz and disregards its importance as a major piece of the cultural landscape in the United [...]

  • Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: Mongorama

    Updated: 2011-05-19 14:00:30
    Any artist that experiences a life long career in music moves through a series of phases that define an era in their creative work. Any musician evolves over time - it’s just a natural life course that emerges in artistic expression. In the moment, these changes seem like important courses that overflow from [...]

  • Bobby Sanabria’s Grammy Travesty Timeline

    Updated: 2011-05-18 15:30:40
    The 2011 changes in the Grammy Awards have seemed like a sudden shock to a number of people, but in reality, they are the result of a long chain of events. It’s a story about the rise of ethnic music’s popularity in The United States, and the music industry’s attempts to keep them at [...]

  • Putumayo Jazz Sale!

    Updated: 2011-05-17 20:17:57
    Putumayo Jazz Sale! Buy 2 or More CDs from Putumayo’s Jazz Series and Receive 20% Off! Enter the code 20JAZZ at checkout Shop Now!

  • Cueca Chilena | Chilean Cueca | Cueca Chora

    Updated: 2011-05-11 18:35:37
    Cueca Chilena | Chilean Cueca The origins of the Cueca is hotly disputed. Some People say that its origins lie in Africa either brought over by slaves, or created on the Latin American continent by Africans, and that possibly it may have it’s roots in Andalucia Spain via the Fandango as well as via Peru’s ...Read the Rest

  • Updates re Corpus Christi Vocal Competition

    Updated: 2011-05-06 01:50:26
    The 4th Annual Corpus Christi Mariachi Music Fest is right around the corner - May 21, 2011. The event includes mariachi group and vocal competitions as well as a concert featuring Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan at the Richardson Performance Hall at Del Mar College. For those  interested in participating in ...

  • Extravaganza Winners head to Ashland

    Updated: 2011-05-06 01:50:26
    It's official! Winners of the 2010 Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza High School Mariachi Group Competition, and Best in the US Vocal winner, have officially been invited to perform at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show this summer. Mariachi Cascabel from Rio Grande City High School, and Karenn Lazo from Roma, will ...

  • Nydia Rojas announces tour with Vicente Fernandez

    Updated: 2011-05-05 08:35:03
    Former San Antonio Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza special guest, Nydia Rojas, will be touring with El Rey de la Cancion Ranchera, Vicente Fernandez. The two will headline several concerts in California this month and again later in November. Nydia Rojas is a California native who has been singing since the age of ...

  • Putumayo Presents: Jazz

    Updated: 2011-05-04 21:54:40
    Putumayo’s Jazz features a veritable who’s who of jazz legends including: Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Nat King Cole, Maxine Sullivan, Zoot Sims, Anita O’Day, Hampton Hawes, Blossom Dearie, Mose Allison, Cannonball Adderley, and more performing beloved standards. The 1950s was a golden age for jazz and three-quarters of this collection was [...]

  • Eddie Palmieri | Ronnie Scotts | Review

    Updated: 2011-05-04 11:36:40
    Eddie Palmieri and Afro Carribean Jazz Stars Live at Ronnie Scotts Review Performance on the 28/04/2011 If you have never been to Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club to watch some quality music then you don’t know what you are missing out on. The venue is as good as it gets when it comes to Jazz, intimate ...Read the Rest

  • Twisted Cumbia | KoKo| Review | M.I.S | Russ Jones | Axel Krygier

    Updated: 2011-05-04 11:11:06
    Twisted Cumbia KoKo’s Pollito Booglaloo, Axel Krygier and Mexican Institue of Sound Dj Russ Jones aka Hackney Globe Trotter Photo Credit: Karolina Przeklas It’s been a while since I have been inside the old Camden Palace now renamed KoKo’s. We had arrived late due to the fact that we were at the 1st Latin Dance ...Read the Rest

  • Mother’s Day Serenatas are a popular tradition

    Updated: 2011-05-03 18:50:37
    Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan-Perfume De Gardenia by blcervantes As Mother's Day approaches I recall the fond memories I had serenading mom's on Mother's Day all through the night. We started at midnight and played until dawn, going house to house with members of the San Jose Mission mariachi group in ...

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