http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/ Voices Feed en-us World & Latin - If the holidays are truly about renewing the commitment to peace and goodwill, then what better time of year for music that bridges cultural and ideological divides? Hiroshima's Spirit Of The Sea 2009-11-17 12:34:01 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/786/ W World & Latin - By the time the world met "Grandpa" Elliott Small in April 2009 via Playing For Change's two-disc Songs Around The World CD/DVD, he'd already been busking in New Orleans' Fren 2009-11-03 16:27:43 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/754/ W World & Latin - In the 1950s, the mambo and other strains of Latin dance music were hugely popular among Jewish Americans, especially those in New York. This unlikely phenomenon prompted a handful of Latin artists -- 2009-10-23 14:06:13 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/728/ W World & Latin - Latin percussionist Poncho Sanchez recently released his 24th album for Concord Picante. Although it's titled Psychedelic Blues, it's actually a very jazz-oriented release. The set opens wit 2009-10-14 12:21:18 By Chris Slawecki http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/692/ W World & Latin - Guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Corey Harris has a fascinating way of demonstrating the interconnectedness of diverse musical traditions from around the globe. blu.black, his new Telarc release, offers 2009-09-28 13:37:49 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/646/ W World & Latin - There's something intriguing in the story of a 4-year-old Swedish-American boy who launches his show-biz career as a tap dancer raised by two vaudevillian parents, and later becomes one of the wo 2009-08-31 12:04:06 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/584/ W World & Latin - This year marks the 30th anniversary of Hiroshima. Not the ill-fated Japanese city whose annihilation marked the end of World War II. That was more than 60 years ago. The other Hiroshima -- the contem 2009-08-17 17:49:33 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/576/ W World & Latin - By the time Tito Puente recorded Royal T on Concord Picante in January 1993, he had logged in nine previous recordings on the label and more than 100 overall since the start of his career in the 1940s 2009-07-24 13:12:32 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/563/ W World & Latin - Recorded in 1993 and released on Milestone in 1995, Walking on Coals was Canhoto da Paraíba's first release in the United States and his third overall. Throughout this 12-track set, he 2009-07-07 12:26:28 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/553/ W World & Latin - Already a purveyor of edgy, progressive jazz that occasionally flirted with the avant garde, pianist Hiromi Uehara upped the ante when she assembled Sonicbloom to record Time Control (2007) and Beyond 2009-06-29 14:40:54 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/547/ W World & Latin - For more than a quarter century, steel pan artist Andy Narell has been on a one-man crusade to expand the role of calypso music within the jazz idiom. His resulting body of work has been an engaging h 2009-06-19 14:05:11 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/539/ W World & Latin - Early in his career, Brazilian guitarist Djalma de Andrade was the only black man in his first jazz gigs in his native Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s. Based on this demographic imbalance, he earned the n 2009-05-27 11:07:54 By John C. Bruening http://www.concordmusicgroup.com//World & Latin/520/ W