Mango Santamaria News Today

Today’s featured artist is Esperanza Spalding with Mango Santamaria’s song Afro Blue (1959) performed live on International Jazz Day in 2013.  

Chick Corea “What making music for people does, I’ve observed, is it stimulates what’s natural in all of us. It’s native sense, in every person. You don’t have to be a professional anything — all you need to do is be a living human being, and open to the play of imagination.” –Chick Corea, Jazz Times (2020) With a career spanning more than five decades and 23 Grammy Awards, pianist/keyboardist Chick Corea first garnered international attention with Miles Davis, ever after expl...