Harold López-Nussa "Timba a la Americana" featuring Grégoire Maret with Thibaud Soulas & Ruy Adrian López-Nussa
Winner of the Montreux Jazz Piano Competition in 2005, Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa has been making a name for himself on the global music scene for nearly 20 years. In addition to his work with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra and the likes of Gilles Peterson and Leo Brouwer, he is in constant production as an orchestra leader. Harold López-Nussa took his place in the Blue Note Records catalog with Timba a la Americana, produced by Snarky Puppy’s Michael League in 2023. Inspired by the homesickness he experienced during the first winter after his family moved to France from Cuba, the album is a provocative, lavishly colorful, effortlessly unified song cycle that amounts to a top-to-bottom modernization of Latin jazz. Harold López-Nussa will be at Zorlu PSM Turkcell Platinum Stage on October 10 and his message is clear: “I love to dance and I always love it when people are dancing. It says to me that the music is alive.”
Harold López-Nussa: Piano
Grégoire Maret: Harmonica
Luques Curtis: Bass
Ruy Adrian López-Nussa: Drums