Jazz Articles about Gustavo Cortiñas

like 7

Gustavo Cortiñas: Snapshot

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
August 10, 2013

With Snapshot, drummer Gustavo Cortiñas emerges from that challenging rite of passage: the début album. Following years of training (with saxophonist Victor Goines, among others, who is on the record) and sideman duty (on a record with saxophonist Roy McGrath, who also shows up for this date), a young artist seeks to craft a meaningful and representative musical statement and calling card.The musician has in the short span of the début record's length to establish him or herself ...