By: Estefanía Romero The Festival Internacional de Jazz Armando Núñez (FIJAN), directed by Mario Montes, accomplished everything it promised and way much more. I’m talking about a very uncommon jazz festival in the beautiful Chihuahua, a city in Northern Mexico. Here are my insights… The Musical Jewels Featured By […]
By: Estefania Romero The visual art work in this article is taken from Collectives. [Please remember that my perspective as a jazz critic is not to have the absolute truth, but to offer a point of view to talk about what we love the most: music!]. Collectives is an opus […]
By: Estefanía Romero I witnessed how The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis played at the historical Mexican building Alhóndiga de Granaditas in Guanajuato city, and a couple of days later at the Auditorio Nacional, in Mexico City. Two concerts with the same repertoire, but extremely different performances. […]
By: Estefanía Romero In this critique I may say two things: 1. The one you’re expecting (which is what others have written before). 2. The real thing, that would probably guide us into a little introspection on how we process jazz. So, I am going to try the second one, […]
By: Estefanía Romero Kurt Elling just keeps climbing his musical possibilities and incredible talent. During his concert Mexico, he showed once again how much he dominates prosody, his flawless diction and wide vocal range. Kurt can play with rhythmic dynamism, embedded in a beautiful timbre that jumps between harmonies and […]
By: Estefanía Romero The captivating quality on the arrangements and compositions made by Bria Skonberg, relies on the different discursive atmospheres she can take us to, all these embedded within an admirable creativeness and intelligence. This trumpeter, jazz singer, and bandleader, accomplishes the possibility to fly among diverse […]
By; Estefanía Romero “ONA” means “she” in Croatian (actually, it also does in Czech, Japanese and possibly in other languages as well). This is a mirror of the Croatian American origins of the composer and singer Thana Alexa, who coproduced this album side to side with her husband, the drummer […]
By: Estefanía Romero Jamile is a Brazilian jazz singer based in New York, whose potential seems to be a time bomb. You can listen to her recent musical production If You Could See Me Now in Spotify and Apple Music. I think it is important to consider certain highlights of […]
By: Estefanía RomeroPhoto: Mónica García Jennings and Evans: The Key Points Jerome Jennings Quartet is one of the best projects I’ve heard in Mexico, especially considering that bebop is a very difficult genre to handle. Let me tell you why. In bebop, the tempo changes are very common, but Jennings […]
By: Estefanía Romero Could you imagine a Mexican band taking our dear genre even further? Let me tell you about this project. I must start by saying that I’ve always felt deeply bored by the Literature that makes you read a hundred pages to find an exciting moment when something […]
