Jazz Articles about Gustavo Cruz

About Gustavo Cruz

Album Review

Luciano Soriano: New Places, Old Faces

Read "New Places, Old Faces" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 3, 2026

Luciano Soriano arrives with considerable momentum for a debut leader. He earned a Vail Jazz Workshop credential, an LA Jazz Society Shelly Manne New Talent Award, and a win at the International Trombone Festival's Carl Fontana Competition—all before completing his Jazz Trombone degree at Juilliard. As a commissioned composer for the school's Green Club, Soriano's ambitions clearly extend beyond the role of soloist. New Places, Old Faces, his debut as a leader, presents six originals with his working quintet in ...

Album Review

NYO Jazz: Live in Johannesburg

Read "Live in Johannesburg" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2025

In the summer of 2024, trumpeter/music director Sean Jones and Carnegie Hall's prodigious NYO (National Youth Orchestra) packed their bags and headed overseas for a tour of South Africa, pausing at one of that country's historic landmarks, the Market Theatre, on July 26-28 to present three days of impressive concert performances that thankfully were taped and preserved on this marvelous two-disc compilation, Live in Johannesburg. If these twenty-two young musicians represent any sort of barometer, the future ...