Few would voluntarily blend medical school with jazz training. The methods for learning medical dogma through rote memorization aren't exactly conducive to free-wheeling lyrical improvisation. The two ...

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 ...

Leonard Slatkin has just completed the first of his two seasons as Los Angeles Philharmonic principal guest conductor at the Hollywood Bowl -- and already he has freshened the programming considerably ...

Pianist Michel Camilo has been on the jazz scene since the early ‘80s, when his song “Why Not?” became a hit for Manhattan Transfer. Since then he has worked as a regular with Paquito D’Rivera and led ...

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 ...

New York-based trombonist Conrad Herwig began exploring the “Latin side" of various jazz musicians in 1996, with The Latin Side of John Coltrane, which earned him the first of four Latin Grammy Award ...

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 ...

Pianist Michel Camilo, who performs Rhapsody in Blue with the Houston Symphony on Sunday. Camilo is a multi award-winning pianist and composer who freely crosses between the worlds of classical, jazz, ...

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 ...

Three is the magic number and a musical treat for Orlando, as the Michel Camilo Trio takes over Judson’s Live for a weekend stand. For a half-century Camilo has recorded and performed with ageless and ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Michel Camilo will end its run at ...