Kiki Valera figured out pretty early in his 54 years that music was going to be his life. After all, he was born into a Cuban family that had been playing and preserving traditional sounds of the ...

Pianist and composer Manuel Valera is not interested in the usual Latin licks over post-bop beats but in the shape of cubano jazz to come. Valera proves he can heat it up with the best. -- Makkada The ...