Origin counts. Santiago de Cuba, for example, Cuba's second largest city: a working-class district where Cuban chants can be heard at every step, popular rhythms and dances. When one grows up re, melodies become part of identity, stored in mysterious processes of biochemistry. There are also memories of a youth in which time and energy are related to repertoire of European art music.

If one is like One born in 1973 in Santiago de Cuba Aruán Ortiz, who first learned violin, n changed to viola before making piano with 19 to his instrument. Who had been trained in Havana as a concert pianist, met Jazz in Barcelona, refined his ability to be in Boston, and later sought American pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams as a mentor, avant-garde from Chicago, Ortiz in Encouraged to detach himself from stylistic requirements and to drive flow of his inspiration also with extra-musical ideas.

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Philosophical, artistic, mamatical, and physical concepts now base compositions and improvisations of Aruán Ortiz. He has now arrived in Brooklyn, in center of Contemporary Jazz, and with his music, in which different layers of consciousness rub and spark, he is a great promise of genre.

Live in Zurich is recording of a concert that Ortiz gave with bassist Brad Jones and drummer Chad Taylor, two musicians from New York, in November 2016 in Zurich. The idea of publishing it was only born afterwards under impression of abundance. On basis of compositions with programmatic titles such as analytical Symmetry or fractal sketches, which Ortiz has already presented on album Hidden Voices, trio unfolds in a dizzying mesh of divergent sounds and voices You guys T of a musical grinding stream in which tints appear again and again: y tell of Santiago or of Vienna of 19th century, of Chicago, Brooklyn or Barcelona. of a musical life that goes beyond his memories.

Aruán Ortiz Trio: Live in Zurich (Intact Records)

Date Of Update: 31 March 2018, 12:02