Tag: Carla Boregas

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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Best known for her collaborative work, through live performances and site-specific sound installations with the multidisciplinary artist Anelena Toku as one half of Fronte Violeta, and with fellow Rakta member Mauricio Takara on two albums of limpid abstractions which lap at the borders between free jazz, drone, and kosmische, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and an accommodating Nel...

This week the drummer, pianist, and vibraphonist Joe Chambers returns to Blue Note to unravel some of the rhythmic affinities shared by jazz, Latin, Brazilian, Argentinian, and African music, between interpretations of pieces by Kurt Weill, Joe Henderson, Karl Ratzer, and his co-producer Andrés Vial offering an ode to the spirit of Congolese dance which features Vial on the...