Jane Bunnett / Maqueque - On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme2019 release. Multiple Juno award winner and two time Grammy nominee, Jane Bunnett and her all female Cuban Jazz band Maqueque are back with 'On Firm Ground Tierra Firme'. This is their third studio album and music just keeps getting better. Since the new year the band has played Panama, Germany, Amsterdam, Switzerland and Spain. US and Canadian Jazz Festivals and stand alone shows are scheduled for the remainder of 2019 and into next year. The spirit

It appears Mike VanPortfleet

original tunes by trumpeters Nicholas Payton and (his current employer) Tom Harrell

France and Italy

and "emotional in a new kind of way

The album was recorded in February 2019 at Angel Studios and produced by Nicholas Skilbeck and Ghostlight Records founder

catapulting Russell into an even darker place

as Sandrine Piau concludes

between contemporary Cuba and baroque Germany

from the melancholy Surumarssi ("Funeral March") from Six Pieces

The band has developed beyond their earlier KARP/Unsane worship and added unsettling melodies

it is because they find them tasty

violin concertos and transcriptions