He is a legend in Colombian salsa. A magical childhood, a grey adolescence and an adulthood of difficult and exciting moments have made Yuri Buenaventura a well-known artist in Paris and around the world, who has been making music with Manu Chao’s Mano Negra, rappers Orishas, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and Cheo Feliciano. […]
The 38th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival will take place in January 2023. Havana and Santiago de Cuba will be the sites of a great musical celebration that will bring together prestigious Cuban and foreign artists in the Greater Antilles in the free spirit of jazz. The event will take place from January […]
As if it were the soundtrack to Gladys Palmera’s book, CHA-CHA-CHA, Roberto Fonseca delves into the origins and impact of this unique rhythm that marked the life of Cuba, “the sound island”. To do this, it turns to some of its greatest exponents such as its very creator, Enrique Jorrín, and the flagship group of […]
You & The Night & The Music 2022 is back! Here is the complete list of all the artists who will participate on December 12, Salle Pleyel, in our big annual evening with ADAMI, and the support of SACEM and Banque Postale. This new edition will have as guest of honor the harmonicist Jean-Jacques Milteau, […]
Roberto Fonseca drives us through roads of Havana and enjoy the wind while great trumpeters play on the radio. These sonorous winds start and culminate with the fabulous dances enlivened by the orchestra led by Félix Chapottin and Miguelito Cuní, Cuban legends capable of lighting the stove at any time. Chapottin was a genius on […]
Award-winning pianist-songwriter Roberto Fonseca has joined an already-impressive line-up for the ten-year anniversary Rye International Jazz and Blues Festival. The festival will run from August 25 to 29 encompassing the August bank holiday weekend. Also on the line-up are Curtis Stigers, Stanley Jordan, Roachford, Mud Morganfield and Imelda M. Learn more here.
Pianist from Havana, former member of the Buena Vista Social Club, Roberto Fonseca is hailed around the world as the new darling of the Cuban keyboard. A free and always daring artist, he knows how to take risks, break new ground and move his music forward. In his new album Yesun, he fuses everything together: […]
Jazz is much more than music, much more than a musical genre. Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca will be giving a series of workshops on jazz entitled “A sea of jazz” between 11 and 13 July at the Esporles centre. You can book your ticket here.
Faithful to Jazz à la Villette, the pianist Roberto Fonseca proposes this year an exceptional project, a reinvention of the Cabane Cubaine, the mythical Montmartre cabaret of the 1930s. An invitation to dance to the sound of the intoxicating classics of Cuba’s Roaring Twenties. More information on La Gran Diversión here.