Por: Estefanía Romero Photographer (2018): Mónica García Does Mexican jazz exist? There are so many empty spaces in the history of this genre in our country that we just try to fill them with few pieces of literature and oral tradition. That is why I enjoyed so much the opportunity of visiting […]
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 […]
Snarky Puppy? Michael League’s Exclusive Interview
By Estefanía Romero Michael League, the creator and director of Snarky Puppy, Bokanté and GroundUP Music, talked to us in an exclusive interview backstage before the third concert of Snarky Puppy’s tour in Latinamerica. And here are the news! -Snarky Puppy kicked cultural industry’s ass. Many people now like jazz […]
“Love is the Answer, Anything is Possible”: Donald Harrison Jr.
By Estefanía Romero “Big Chief” is how we call him. He is a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, mainly saxophonist, and an educator, well known for playing in classic jazz projects such as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and with new jazz wonderful musicians as Christian Scott; we know him also because many […]
Larry Blumenfeld vs. The Jazz Media Crisis
By Estefanía Romero His intelligence, critical view and deep knowledge are some of the aspects that build the figure of Larry Blumenfeld, as someone that today belongs to the jazz world, from where he extracts different explanations that can only be formulated through the written word. This is how he […]