Max Pollak

Max Pollak: Tapped Into Rhythm

by Leo Sidran
April 24, 2025

Max Pollak was five years old, growing up in suburban Vienna, when he saw Fred Astaire dancing on television. He didn't understand the history. He didn't know the language. But he knew he had to do that. The rhythm, the movement, the magic of it--it spoke to him. And it sent him on a lifelong journey ...

Jazz Power Initiative Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Season With The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Series

October 2, 2023

Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music, arts education and performance, kicks off its 20th anniversary season with the acclaimed Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam series starting in October. Held twice-monthly, the Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a ...

Grupo los Santos: Santos 4

By Grupo Los Santos

Label: Santos Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Rumba para Oto?o Ant's Dance Casi Quince Consequence Seven Steps

Grupo los Santos: Clave Heart

By Pete Smith

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Entre Dongan Y Arden; Future Homage; No T; Clave Heart; Dimelo; Illuminado; Afrekete Blue; Algo Azul; Tug of War; Rumba Para Kaori

Clave Heart

By Grupo Los Santos

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Entre Dongan Y Arden; Future Homage; No T; Clave Heart; Dimelo; Illuminado; Afrekete Blue; Algo Azul; Tug of War; Rumba Para Kaori

Lo Que Somos Lo Que Sea

By Grupo Los Santos

Label: Deep Tone Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Rumba in the Bronx; A Danca Dos Santos; Happified; Clave 66; Absurdities and Atrocities; Manna; Guajira Santa; Boogie Down Broder; Toreja Kulo; Pedrito La Vaca