Victor Campbell is not yet a household name here, but this rising Cuban piano player who moved to New Orleans in 2019 is lighting up audiences everywhere he plays. And on Oct. 25, the prodigious ...
Cuban pianist Omar Sosa arrived in the Bay Area in 1995 by way of Ecuador with a few dollars in his pocket and not a single musical contact. Unknown in the U.S., he was an outlier even back home in ...
Africa Mix's Emmanuel Nado speaks with pianist and composer, Omar Sosa, about being a World citizen, his upcoming residency with SFJAZZ, his three bands, and sharing Afro-Cuban traditions through his ...
Ruthie Meadows, ethnomusicologist, writer and associate professor of ethnomusicology within the College of Liberal Arts, has been named as one of the two 2025-2026 Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished ...
In baseball-crazy Cuba, Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodriguez didn’t get outside much to play with his friends. While his buddies were fielding and batting the ball, the young Valdés was inside his home ...
This week’s Music Monday on GBH’s All Things Considered featured a visionary artist whose talent and curiosity surfaced at an early age. Zahili Zamora is a Cuban-born jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A trip many thought would never happen. Talented music students from Cuba are visiting - and playing- in Chicago. Chicago Jazz Philharmonic founder Orbert Davis was teaching a high ...
More than 50 artists from some 10 countries performed in the show which lasted more than two hours. More than 50 artists from some 10 countries performed in the show, which opened with "Manteca" -- a ...
Chuck Lamb will join Jorge Gómez & the Cuban Fusion Jazz Collab and Ria Curley & the Nu-Soul-Jaz Collab for a show Tuesday at Putnam Place in Saratoga Springs. Singer-songwriter Ria Curley will bring ...
Today our musical guest is Cuban-born Afro Latin jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, bandleader, arranger and educator Zahili Gonzalez Zamora. She started playing piano at the age of six and graduated ...
The 14-piece sound that is ¡Cubanismo! performs at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 10, at Vail Square. In addition to bandleader Jesus Alemany on trumpet, the ensemble features three vocalists – Alina Vila, ...