Cuban
pianist Harold López-Nussa announces a rare 14-city North American Fall trio
tour from September 20 through October 14, 2014. Booked by Ted Kurland
Associates, the tour includes performances at the Monterey Jazz Festival
(Monterey, CA), SFJAZZ Center - featuring David Sánchez (San Fransisco, CA),
The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Jazz Standard (New York, NY), Scullers
Jazz Club (Boston, MA), Blue Whale (Los Angeles, CA), SPACE - Society for the
Preservation of Art & Culture (Evanston, IL), L'Astral (Montreal), and Jazz
Bistro (Toronto), among other venues and cities (full tour schedule listed
below). In support of the 31-year-old pianist's latest album, New Day (released on JazzVillage in October
2013), the touring trio will feature drummer Ruy Adrián López-Nussa (Harold's
brother) and bassist Jorge Sawa Pérez.
In
December 2010, López-Nussa came onto the radar of prestigious booking agent,
Ted Kurland (Ted Kurland Associates), who considers Harold to be one of the
best young talents coming out of Cuba. The following year, the pianist was one
of the featured artists on Ninety Miles, a project that came together after
Wynton Marsalis & Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra conducted a five-day
residency in Havana, working and performing with students. The album was
released on Concord Picante and also featured Stefon Harris, David Sánchez and
Christian Scott. Soon after, López-Nussa released his sophomore album, titled
El Pais de las Maravillas (JazzVillage).
López-Nussa's
latest release, New Day, showcases his ever-growing confidence as both composer
and improviser, and features the first use of electronic keyboards on one of
his own albums. His compositions for New Day were equally fueled by the sights,
sounds, and creativity of modern Cuba as by its legendary history. "I haven't recorded in my homeland in a
long time," says López-Nusa. "This made the album really special
because here I'm surrounded by the people and situations that inspire my
music."
Harold
López-Nussa is a child of two worlds. Born into a musical household in Cuba and
educated by his French grandparents, López-Nussa took an early interest in
classical piano before attending the prestigious ISA School in Havana. At the
young age of 20, López-Nussa shifted his focus to the fiery Cuban jazz of his
youth, but not without the nuanced, classical touch of his education.
López-Nussa made his mark touring across Europe from Verdona and London to Vienna
and Paris before winning the esteemed Solo Piano Contest at the 2005 Montreux
Jazz Festival and recording his first solo piano album, Sobre el Atelier.
Harold
López-Nussa
Fall
2014 - North American Tour
September
20 / Blue Whale / Los Angeles, CA
September
21 / Monterey Jazz Festival / Monterey, CA
September
25 / SFJAZZ Center - Miner Auditorium Feat. David Sánchez / San Francisco, CA
September
26 / Iowa State University - Maintenance Shop Memorial Union / Ames, IA
September
29 / SPACE - Society for the Preservation of Art & Culture / Evanston, IL
September
30 / Jazz Standard / New York, NY
October
1 / The Kennedy Center - Millennium Stage / Washington, D.C.
October
3 / The Side Door Old Lyme Inn / Old Lyme, CT
October
4 / Montpelier Arts Center / Laurel, MD
October
7 / Wellfleet Preservation Hall / Wellfleet, MA
October
8 / Scullers Jazz Club / Boston, MA
October
9 / L'Astral / Montreal, Quebec, Canada
October
10-12 / Jazz Bistro / Toronto, ONT, Canada
October
14 / Festival de Jazz de Quebec - The Cercle / Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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