By: Estefanía Romero Photo: Mónica García The job of a critic is not to be “right” – that would make them into jumped-up authority figures, high-court judges of art. What pompous nonsense. The memorable critics – including the greatest of all, John Ruskin – were often wrong, even absurd, but they made […]
Ode to the Artistic Truth: Chick Corea and Béla Fleck
By: Estefanía Romero Photo: Salvador Bonilla Knowledge shows the artist’s possibility to move forward, even when he’s looking to the past all the time. Last night, the Teatro Metropólitan didn’t just gave us an extraordinary concert, but also gave us a lesson about the meaning of being a real musician […]
From Bop to Latin: The Brilliant Concert of Arturo Sandoval in Mexico City
By: Estefanía Romero To discover Dizzy Gillespie and The United Nations Orchestra’s concert was the great event that led me into a personal obsession to the historical, cultural and musicological labyrinths of jazz. All the musicians of that project became my idols and since then I decided that I wouldn’t […]