Native of the Dominican Republic, Michel Camilo has forged a highly personal approach to piano composition and performance. His playing is refreshingly devoid of the hypersensitive impressionism ...

GRAMMY®, EMMY® and three-time Latin GRAMMY® Award winner Michel Camilo will release LIVE IN LONDON, a special "live" solo piano album, set for November 16, 2017 through his own record label imprint, ...

Piano virtuoso Michel Camilo has plied his trade in various settings—trios mostly, but in duos and big bands as well—so the time must have seemed right for him to put out a solo work which, while not ...

First, just inside the festival gate, the audience packs the Harbor Stage for Hiromi. Her light-to-squeaky onstage voice belies her huge piano sound and technique, applied full-bore to longtime ...

Since he first came to New York 30 years ago, pianist and composer Michel Camilo has made a name for himself as an inventive and ferocious jazz player. His amazing skills at the piano, forged at the ...

To the highly trained musical eye, the name of Michel Camilo’s new project, “Three + Three,” looks like somewhat of a misnomer. That’s just a sextet, right? Well, sure. But the three horn players the ...

There are no speed barriers for Michel Camilo, the Dominican pianist who played a JVC Jazz Festival concert on Friday night at the Rose Theater. In solos, duos, trios and quartets, his hands flew ...

One lives amid greenery in the forest of Guavate in Puerto Rico‘s central mountain range, and the other in posh Bedford, in Westchester County, with Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren as neighbors. Their ...

Music Review | 'Michel Camilo and Tomatito' By Nate Chinen Michel Camilo is a Dominican jazz pianist and Tomatito is a Spanish flamenco guitarist, but those characterizations don’t quite capture the ...

The sky is the limit for this eclectic Dominican-born pianist. A member of his native country’s symphony orchestra while still in his teens, Michel Camilo made the decision to leave that position in ...

A rudimentary difference between blues and jazz is found in the flourishes and touches -- blues purists believe in 12-bar phrases and verse-chorus-verse; jazz relies on the toying with those ...