The popular Jazz ’n Creole music festival is back in Dominica, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The 12th edition fo the event will be held April 30 at the stunning Fort Shirley in Dominica’s Cabrits National Park.  The festival, which first […]

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Jamaica’s award-winning jazz legend, Monty Alexander, will travel to Los Angeles for a show this November. Alexander, whose music explores the bridge between American jazz, popular song, and the music of his native Jamaica, will […]

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The 19th Dominican Republic Jazz Festival will celebrate five nights of free concerts November 4-8 in the towns of Santiago Sosúa, Puerto Plata, and Cabarete. The event is slated to host Grammy Award-winning artists, and […]

Above: the Frost Salsa Orchestra By the Caribbean Journal staff MIAMI — It’s one of the Caribbean’s great art forms: salsa, and thanks to the efforts of one orchestra it’s finding a home with another of the hemisphere’s major genres: […]