This week we get to hear the incredibly fascinating story of pianist/composer Coto Pincheira. Coto is a Chilean-born musician who has lived and worked in Havana, the San Fransisco Bay Area and currently resides in NYC. While in Cuba, Coto performed with .

This week, we interrupt our usual programming with something a bit different from our normal format. In this episode, POE musical-director Victor Pablo and I discuss the somewhat random series of events that led to the creation of this very podcast you s.

This week’s guest is French born, New York residing bassist/producer Ben Zwerin.  Ben is the current touring bass player with Angelique Kidjo and has also performed and recorded with the likes of Lila Downs, Lionel Loueke, Claudia Acuña and Junacho Herre.

This week’s guest is one of my favorite musicians in NYC, the amazing Mike Eckroth. Mike is a prolific pianist/composer who may have one of the most diverse and eclectic resumes to speak of. He has played with everyone from top jazz artists including Joh.

In this week’s episode I have the honor and pleasure of sitting down with one of the greatest bass players that has ever lived, the one and only John Benitez. For those of you who don’t know, John is a five-time GRAMMY award-winning bassist that has play.

This week’s guest is pianist, composer and self-proclaimed sound crafter Alejandro “Alejo” Zuleta. While Alejo works in many guises in NYC as a professional pianist, choir director and composer for TV and film, this interview primarily revolves around hi.

This week’s guest is none other than bassist Bam Bam Rodriguez. Bam Bam was born in Caracas, Venezuela and has been a part of the NYC music scene since 2012. He has performed and collaborated with Claudia Acuña, Ari Hoenig, Yayo Serka, Juancho Herrera, A.

This week’s guest is none other than guitarist, vocalist and composer Juancho Herrera. Juancho has made a name for himself in the Latin, South American and world music scene as both one of New York’s most sought after sideman and most creative bandleader.

This week our guest is guitarist/composer Richard Padrón. Born in Cuba, raised in Miami and currently residing in NYC, Richard has made a name for himself as a sideman with Zé Luis Oliveira, Lauren Hill, Victor Prieto and many other eclectic groups in Ne.

This weeks episode is a bit different from the usual programming. Because everyone in POE gets their turn being interviewed for the podcast, this week I take one for the team and have fearless leader Gabriel Globos-Hoenich interview me and allow me to