“Inolvidable” was nominated Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album at the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Carlini served as associate producer on the session for Chesky Records with Cuban legends Candido Camero and Graciela Perez. This album, Inolvidable, released in 2004, also features Latin recording veterans Manny Oquendo, Nelson Gonzalez, Andy Gonzalez, Sonny Bravo, Xiomara, and Federico ...
Legendary Afro-Cuban percussionists Francisco Aguabella, Candido Camero and Carlos “Patato” Valdes gathered this past week to celebrate fellow Conga Master Ray Barretto’s 75th birthday at New York’s famed Blue Note. This rare event, organized by impresario Charles Carlini, featured some of New York’s leading jazz and Latin musicians including Eddie Palmieri, Nicky Marrero, Myron Walden, ...
Pianist James Williams and Charles Carlini co-produced a live CD for Half Note Records in celebration of legendary pianist Hank Jones‘ 85th Birthday at New York City’s Blue Note featuring a virtual who’s who in jazz. Special guests included Monty Alexander, Geri Allen, Ray Barretto, Candido Camero, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Marian McPartland, Jon Faddis, ...
B.B. King’s Blues Club recently played host to Moogfest, the first annual festival celebrating the achievements of maverick inventor Robert Moog whose namesake analog synthesizer helped catapult the careers of such a diverse list of artists as rockers Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Gary Numan, and Devo, funksters Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp, disco producer Giorgio Moroder with ...
Charles Carlini recently signed singer-songwriter Marta Gomez to Chesky Records. Carlini, who was looking for a new project to record for Chesky, found Gomez’s music during a random search on CD Baby. Gomez, a native Colombian and Berklee College of Music graduate, has shared the same stage with such diverse artists as Livingston Taylor, Bonnie ...
