Alex “Sasha” Sipiagin Joins 5Passion!

Alex “Sasha” Sipiagin has agreed to record an exciting new album for 5Passion. We here at 5Passion are very pleased and can’t wait to get started! Добро пожаловать Sasha!

Yosvany Terry Joins 5Passion !

    We are extremely excited to announce that Yosvany Terry will release a new album entitled “Ye-de-gbe & Caribbean Legacy” on the 5Passion label!  This fresh new offering will be released in the Fall of 2012 in standard and high-definition audio formats! “I feel very fortunate to join ‘5Passion’, a place where truly inspiring Art is breath through its Walls”. [...]

Gonzalo Rubalcaba releases “XXI Century”

                                      Gonzalo Rubalcaba releases “XXI Century”, his second offering for 5Passion . “XXI” finds Gonzalo in an ensemble setting, featuring Marcus Gilmore on Drums, Matt Brewer on Upright and Electric Bass, Lionel Leouke on Guitar, Pedro Martinez on Percussion and Voice, and [...]

Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s New Album “XXI Century” is at hand….Soon available in standard and 24/96 resolutions!

Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s New Album “XXI Century” is at hand….

The positive energy input of conceiving, writing, organizing, playing, recording, editing, mixing, mastering the album “XXI Century” is contained on this tiny USB Memory Stick….   

The Great Ignacio Berroa Sits-In On The Recording Festivities at Bennett Studios

Ignacio Berroa has been recognized by many as one of the greatest drummers of our times. His numerous contributions to the American music scene have earned him a place among a selected group of artists known to have set new musical trends for the 20th century. Jazz Legend Dizzy Gillespie best defined Ignacio as: “… the only Latin drummer in [...]

Bennett Studios, June 28, 2011

(From Left to Right)  Mario Garcia Haya, Pedro Martinez, Jim Anderson, Gary Galimidi, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Alessandro Perrotta, Matt Brewer, Lionel Leuke, Marcus Gilmore….sadly, Ignacio Berroa was not available for this foto…. This photo was taken toward the end of one of the last sessions at Bennett Studios in New Jersey, which subsequently closed down for good in September of 2011. [...]

Marcus Gilmore and Gonzalo at Bennett Studios

Marcus Gilmore Marcus Gilmore, 22, is the grandson of Roy Haynes, jazz’s most important living drummer, but he has proved his own virtues quickly. Around the winter of 2004-5 he created that pleasant citywide buzz when someone new and special blows through New York clubs and jam sessions. Now you can hear him regularly, playing with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Nicholas Payton, [...]

Pedrito “El Aparatoso!”

Since arriving in the United States at the end of the 1990s, the Cuban percussionist Pedro Martinez has been all over the place, putting rumba and guaguancó into the weave of all kinds of groups. But when his drums, singing and writing are the focus – as is the case in his new band– he’s an incomparable performer. – Ben [...]

Lionel Leouke at Bennett Studios

Originally from the small West African nation of Benin, guitarist Lionel Loueke has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the past several years. In 2008 and 2009, he was picked as top Rising Star guitarist in Down Beat magazine’s annual Critics Poll. His sophomore release for Blue Note, Mwaliko, follows up 2007′s acclaimed Karibu with a series of searching, innovative, intimate [...]

Matt Brewer at Bennett Studios

Matt Brewer was born April 20, 1983, in Oklahoma City but spent most of his youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born into a musical family, Matt was surrounded by music from an early age, both his father and grandfather being jazz musicians, and his mother an avid music lover and radio DJ (who, before Matt was born, would play classic [...]