Circle 9 is excited to welcome cuban tresero Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano aboard our artist roster.

Miami, FL – 11 de marzo de 2024 - Son cubano, uno de los estilos musicales más populares en Cuba, encuentra en Kiki Valera a uno de sus exponentes más destacados. A lo largo del último siglo, este estilo de música tradicional cubana ha influido en diversos géneros musicales, incluyendo el jazz, el cha-cha-chá, el mambo, la salsa, el songo y la timba. El son cubano es la música que llevó al Buena Vista Social Club a la fama mundial a finales de la década de 1990, pero la conexión de Kiki Valera con esta tradición musical se remonta décadas atrás, gracias a su familia de músicos.

Circle 9 is excited to welcome The Sunday Review aboard our artist roster.

Headed up by singer/songwriter Michael Cerda and Chris Phillips, co-writer and lead guitarist, The Sunday Review brings a fun, 80s-style “Yacht Rock” project to the fold of eclectic jazz and Latin Jazz projects on Circle 9.

Circle 9 is thrilled to welcome master jazz vibraphonist Joe Locke to its artist roster.

Joe's new project is set to release early 2023, and is produced by Locke and co-produced by Grammy® winner Doug Beavers.

Steven Brezet is a Dutch-born multi-percussionist and composer.

At a very young age, Steven took djembe lessons with Senegalese percussionist Aly Ndiaye Rose and soon began expanding to other percussive instruments, including sabar, congas, bongos, timbales, and others. His travels to Senegal, Guinea, Curacao, Morocco, Cuba, and Brazil broadened Steven’s musical passion for African, Brazilian, and Afro-Latin Music.

Circle 9 excitedly welcomes New York veteran flutist Karen Joseph aboard their roster in anticipation of her new solo project, Mambocha, which will feature an ensemble of both young cutting edge and established legends of the New York Latin music recording scene.  The project is to be produced by 2018 Grammy® Winning producer and Circle 9 Director, Doug Beavers.

2019 Grammy® Winning Producer, Composer, Trombonist, and Arranger Doug Beavers will release a brand new, full-length suite of original compositions of sun drenched, afro-cuban and R&B inspired music entitled simply, Sol.

Carlos Cascante is a native of Costa Rica. He moved to the US in 1995 and started his professional musical career in 2005 when he and Musical Director, Julio Jauregui, formed a six piece group under the name of Carlos Cascante Y Su Tumbao.

Cascante is a front-line member of 3X Grammy® award winners Spanish Harlem Orchestra. He is regarded as one of the new and upcoming talents in latin music.

The essence of Yellow House Orchestra is one of hosting, sharing, enjoying, belonging, and showing up for what the world of music has to offer. All that translates into the band's songs, brought together by the musicians and their fiery performances.

Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez is a salsa legend and world-renown bongocero. Having performed and served as musical director for Tito Puente’s orchestra for 33 years, “Dandy”, as he’s universally known, is a veteran of Tito Rodriguez, Machito, Willie Rosario, Celia Cruz, Fania All-Stars, Ray Barretto and virtually the entire pantheon of salsa’s pioneers.

His New York City-based “Dream Team” is a tight-knit unit that performs the band’s entire repertoire entirely by ear. Performing without the boundaries of written music, every rendition of the band’s repertoire of salsa classics and descargas reach dizzying new heights of danceable excitement.

Trumpet virtuoso Jonathan Powell (Eddie Palmieri, Blood Sweat & Tears) will release a brand new solo project on the Circle 9 Records label in 2021.

A current member of both Blood Sweat & Tears and Eddie Palmieri’s ensembles, trumpeter and composer Jonathan Powell has been noted for his “crackling range and the electricity of his imagination” as a soloist (Nat Hentoff, JazzTimes).

Puerto Rican saxophone virtuoso Ivan Renta will record a long-awaited new solo project for Circle 9 Records this year.

Ivan has an extensive list of credentials having performed in the NYC area for more than 20 years.  He has performed on more than 200 recordings with artists such as Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, Ron Carter, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Heath, Ray Barretto and the the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra to name a few.