Paolo Fresu—a multidimensional artist whose creative overdrive has shaped the Italian jazz scene for almost forty years. With definite hints to Chet Baker and Miles Davis, Fresu has honed a ...

Some musicians settle into a club and simply play a set of music, but that's never the case with Omar Sosa. The pianist treats every performance as a musical séance and an opportunity to bare his soul ...

You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cuban-born pianist's overall demeanor exudes a sense of calm and deep reflection, while a spiritual connection to music ...

It is not easy to tell a war through the eyes of someone who does not brandish a weapon, but a musical instrument. Yet it is precisely from this gaze - full of respect, awareness and grace - that ...

Paolo Fresu & Daniele di Bonaventura bookend their atmospheric duet with a solemn call to arms and a majestic hymnal. In between, the Sardinian trumpeter and Italian bandoneonist deliver intimacy and ...

The guitarist Ralph Towner has always, it seems, made music of glowing introspection. Since at least the early 1970s, when he began recording for the German label ECM, he has practiced a pristine, ...

Fresu's work on trumpet and flugelhorn provides a perfect foil for Sosa's introspective intersection of jazz, Afro-Cuban sounds and a... Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu: Tiny Desk Concert You don't really ...