Aaron Cohen

Almost every year, a cloudburst thins the crowd and soaks the faithful at the Chicago Gospel Music Festival. This weekend's edition at Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion was no exception,...

Colombian rockers Aterciopelados sounded relaxed in front of a few hundred enthusiastic, predominantly Latino fans at Green Dolphin Street on Friday. In a room that usually features small jazz combos,...

This compilation reaffirms that Jamaica was not the only home for reggae during the late 1960s and early '70s. Nor, for that matter, was reggae the only Jamaican music at...

With the region's vast array of languages as well as rich national and cultural traditions, a multitude of musical genres is thriving in West Africa. These recordings (and one DVD)...

While Iran and Armenia are not far apart in terms of geography and traditions, the countries sound particularly close on this recording. Hossein Alizadeh has literally reinvented the shurangiz (Persian...

Back in the 1970s, the Zimbabwean Green Arrows were so popular in their homeland that tens of thousands filled a stadium just to watch the band's vocalist-bassist Zexie Manatsa get...

Senegalese musician Nuru Kane grew up in a cosmopolitan Dakar neighborhood and this experience informs his international debut. Equally proficient on guitar and guimbri (a three-string bass), Kane musically travels...

Long journeys and sad partings run throughout Portuguese fado singer Cristina Branco's latest CD. Her quietly passionate delivery makes these images as compelling as the erotic verses from her previous...

Last year, the Congolese group Konono No. 1 won an international following it never expected. That band's homemade thumb pianos and distorted amps found an audience among punk rockers and...

Brazilian producer Apollo Nove has played a crucial supporting role for many of his country's talented young artists, such as the singer Cibelle, who featured his arrangements on her entree...