Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.
Presenting his fifth album as leader, Puerto Rican jazz guitarist Richard Peña unveils The Latin Side of Jazz Guitar, continuing his personal exploration of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, leading a quintet ...
Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...