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 […]
Lady Trumpet Slashes Our Jugular Veins
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 […]
Steve Rothery: New Album and 40 Years of Marillion
Photo-reportage by: Mónica García Steve Rothery presented his new album “The Ghost of Pripyat”, in the Auditorio Blackberry in Mexico City. He also celebrated the 40 aniversary of Marillion, known as one of the most emblematic British bands of progressive rock. This is how it looked like… Steve Rothery (guitarist […]
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 […]