You get the truest measure of a pianist when s/he plays alone, completely responsible for keeping time and the listener's interest; it's the most personal, revealing canvas of all. On Solo, Michel ...

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 ...

Amazingly enough, this March 2003 recording marks the first live release from Michel Camilo, the Dominican Republic's preeminent pianist. Incidentally, it is also his first recording with an all Cuban ...

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 ...

The amiable Latin-jazz piano virtuoso’s hugely entertaining show was a single-set tour de force Bravura gigs don’t ordinarily warrant five stars in my book, but concerts by Michel Camilo – the ...

Guitarist Diego Ueña Santana wins full ride to the prestigious Boston school after auditioning for a jury that included the Grammy-winning pianist By Judy Cantor-Navas Guitarist Diego Ureña Santana is ...

Michel Camilo will end its run at the Blue Note with his seasoned trio featuring bassist Charles Flores and drummer Cliff Almond on April 25th.Camilo will perform selections from his most recent ...

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 ...

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 ...