Cubanology Media Blog

When the CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET finished Hi-Fly - its closing number after a four week engagement at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco in October of 1959~the audience stood and cheered and whistled and clapped for fifteen minutes. In a dozen years of covering jazz events in San Francisco I have never seen anything like this ...

Avante Garde? I’m truly not sure. Since I am learning as I listen, I bump into and read about different “Eras” of Jazz. There is much consistently in the early years but when you reach the “Hard Bop Era” which comes right after “Be Bop” one, there are different interpretations as ...

It was one of my favorite musical special have done, I really enjoyed putting it together and listening to these two masters of Cuban music. The dates these records were made, especially Chico O’ Farrill’s, ( 1950 to 1954) Cuban Blues, only express and acknowledge the highest quality of music. Mongo ...

Charles Mingus was and still is considered to be one of the best Jazz Bass player ever. This is for sure but his unknown contribution to Jazz is not recognized by mainstream music listener. His innovative form of improvisation of instruments was his golden contribution. He composed almost all of the ...

The 60 ‘s was full of pioneering music in all facets of sound but this change took place in the middle of the decade. The most popular of all was the modern Rock n’ Roll sound. But there was a revelation also in the Jazz scene. Although it was more traditional than ...

This was my second multiple sets musical special and it featured Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk with sonny Rollins and Tony Bennett. I started the Blogtalkradio show with a little of Clifford Brown’s Biography and played a Four song mellow set of his. Then I played a complete Album CD of Thelonious ...