JAZZ CONCERT

Horn player trumpeting some 'serious fun'

American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once lamented, ``Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.''

LOOKING AHEAD

Nestor Torres plays free at Viva Broward!

Latin Grammy-winning musician Nestor Torres will play a free concert at 4 p.m. Oct. 19 as part of Viva Broward! weekend in Pompano Beach. The event will also feature the bands Havana Soul and Corazon Colombiano, plus Latin food and drink, capoeria dancers, free salsa lessons, folkloric shows and arts and crafts and more. All events are free, from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Oct. 18 and noon-6 p.m. Oct. 19 at Pompano Citi Centre, 1955 N. Federal Hwy., Pompano Beach.

MUSIC

Colombian musicians mix up a classical gas

Mixing high and low, folk and fine art sounds appealing -- bring the energy and empathy of pop culture to the depth and formal beauty of classicism. And Vallenato Sinfonica, the union of popular vallenato act Jorge Celedón and Jimmy Zambrano with a classical ensemble, presented Friday night at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, sounded like a particularly intriguing version of this mix.

POP MUSIC

A double tribute to bossa nova

Paulo Jobim's early memories sway side to side. He was 8 when he attended one of the first recording sessions of his father, the legendary composer and musician Antonio Carlos ''Tom'' Jobim, and singer and guitarist Joao Gilberto -- the fathers of bossa nova.

BAND OF THE HOUR

A hot blend of Caribbean, Latin sounds

What do leafcutter ants found in the Amazon rain forest have in common with a hot six-member Latin alternative reggae band from Miami? Let's just say it's all in the nabe. Venezuelan Indians use the ant to create a picante or hot sauce. Bachaco (BAH-SHA-KO) like to consider themselves a musical picante comprised of hard-working members.

LATIN GRAMMYS

Café Tacuba from Mexico leads with six nominations

Café Tacuba, a Mexican alternative band, as well as Juanes and Gloria Estefan, received multiple Latin Grammy nominations. Winners will be announced Nov. 13.

LUNCH WITH LYDIA

With help of a little magic, former understudy morphs into Celia on the stage

Anyone lucky enough to have watched Celia Cruz perform live can attest to her magical, infectious force. There was no way to take your eyes off a woman with an energy that was almost supernatural and a voice that thundered with Afro-Cuban soul.

We want you: Election rocks to a new Latin beat

They're not just rocking the vote -- they're salseando, perreando and mariachi-ando it. Latino musicians, actors and celebrities are getting involved in the U.S. presidential campaign to an unprecedented degree this year, from voter-registration campaigns to online music videos for Barack Obama, the candidate drawing the most support from young Latinos.

LITTLE HAVANA

Rare Havana-fusion concert on July 17

Roberto Carcassés, one of the driving forces in a new style of fusion dominating the Havana music scene, will perform in a Miami concert.

NICARAGUA

Facebook is new face of young people's protests

Following examples in Venezuela and Colombia, youths in Nicaragua have used the Internet as an outlet for opposition to President Daniel Ortega.

MUSICAL

Tribute attempts to do right by a Cuban icon

There she is, Celia Cruz, her irrepressible smile looming almost as large over Biscayne Boulevard as she does in the consciousness of Cuban Miami.

Sandoval may open jazz club at Arsht Center

Live jazz music may become a regular event in Miami once again if famed Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval finalizes an agreement to lend his name and curatorial expertise to a new club inside the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Changing the norm one song at a time

When you start by having your dreams dashed, it tends to make you cautious about trusting them again. Which is why Mexican songwriter Mario Domm is not as euphoric as you might expect about the success of his band Camila, one of the biggest acts to come out in Latin pop music recently.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Importers charged with smuggling peas

A federal grand jury has charged South Florida produce importers with smuggling in Guatemalan snow peas and sugar snap peas to avoid pesticide detection.

POP MUSIC

Love songs with sad endings

Songwriter Jorge Villamizar has been playing the pop-music game and the romantic game all his adult life. And he may finally have won by giving up on both, or at least by accepting that the things you love don't always turn out the way you dream they will.

ALBUM REVIEW

Personal songs with emotion, complexity

JORGE VILLAMIZAR Jorge Villamizar Warner Music Latina Quietly heartbreaking, sharply humorous and ultimately, surprisingly hopeful, Jorge Villamizar's solo debut is the most personal music he has made.

JVC Jazz Festival served up exhilarating, if odd, mix

Brazilian funk, soulful R&B, jazz-hip-hop-bossa nova fusion -- an often exhilarating but odd mix of music was on tap for the JVC Jazz Festival at Bayfront Park Amphitheater on Saturday night.

COMPAS FESTIVAL

Haitian bands party all weekend long

The 10th Annual Haitian Compas Festival will promote not just the country's flag and konpa music, but also relief for starving Haitians. Organizers of the 10th annual Haitian Compas Festival are collecting canned goods to send to their Caribbean homeland, which was rocked by food riots last month.

MUSIC

Mendes courts a new generation

Sergio Mendes found fame as part of an era, symbolized in the name of his first band, Brasil 66, inventing a smooth, jazzy bossa nova pop sound that's the very essence of the cooled-out '60s. Later versions of the group in subsequent decades -- Brasil 77, Brasil 88 -- didn't have nearly the same impact.

BOLIVIA

Morales nationalizes telecom, gas companies

'Basic services -- call them energy, water or communications -- cannot be in the hands of private business,' Morales said in announcing the takeovers.

MUSIC

Indian tabla master to perform Sunday

He has jammed with George Harrison, laid down tracks with Van Morrison and collaborated with everyone from jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart to the Kodo drummers of Japan.

Cachao season is in full swing

Cachao season is in full swing. We can expect homages to the late master bassist/composer who passed away last month, including a major one later this year, which was meant not as conmemorative concert but one in which the Cuban maestro would perform.