Home » Search Center » Results: Aruan Ortiz
Results for "Aruan Ortiz"
Results for pages tagged "Aruan Ortiz"...
Aruán Ortiz
Born:
Pianist, violist, and composer Aruán Ortiz – born in Santiago de Cuba, and resident of Brooklyn – has been an active figure in the progressive jazz and avant-garde scene in the US for more than 15 years.
Named “one of the most creative and original composers in the world” (Lynn René Bayley, The Art Music Lounge), he has written music for jazz ensembles, orchestras, dance companies, chamber groups, and feature films, incorporating influences from contemporary classical music, Cuban Haitian rhythms, and avant-garde improvisation. Aruán consistently strives to break stylistic musical boundaries.
Abstraction Is Deliverance
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ware; Per 7; Even The Sparrow; Remember Rosalind; Abstraction Is Deliverance;
Multicellular Beings; Mr. Crick; Left Alone; Polaris.
Créole Renaissance
By Aruán Ortiz
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: L'Etudiant noir;
Seven Aprils in Paris (and A Sophisticated Lady);
Légitime Défense;
From the Distance of my Freedom;
Première Miniature (Créole Renaissance);
The Great Camouflage;
Deuxième Miniature (Dancing);
We Belong to These Who Say No to Darkness;
The Haberdasher;
Lo Que Yo Quiero es Chan Chan.
From the Distance of My Freedom
Album: Créole Renaissance
By Aruán Ortiz
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 7:45
Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025
by Neri Pollastri
Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025 Varie sedi Cormòns 23-26.10.2025 L'edizione 2025 del Jazz&Wine of Peace, la ventottesima, era anche la prima con un nuovo direttore artistico: a Mauro Bardusco, che da sempre curava la rassegna e che--nonostante la sua scomparsa nel luglio dell'anno scorso --aveva progettato anche la quasi totalità di quella ...
Aruán Ortiz: Négritude in the 21st Century
by David Bixler
Créole Renaissance is the latest offering from pianist Aruán Ortiz on Intakt Records. This solo piano record draws its inspiration from the Négritude movement that originated in Paris in the early part of the 20th century that was established to counteract the anti-colonialism attitudes that many black artists in Paris faced as they worked in their ...
Luigi Grasso, Eric McPherson, Aruán Ortiz, Michael Blake & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
There are countless ways to frame a jazz project--through cinema, sci-fi, the push and pull between roots and exploration, unconventional line-ups, or the African diaspora. You will find them all in this eclectic playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Julien Daïan feat. Daniel Auteuil ...
Fujii/Tamura, Earscratcher, Sam Weinberg & Lisa Marie Simmons
by Maurice Hogue
Pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura definitely are a power couple in the free jazz realm. Whether they are leading their own bands, playing in each other's groups, or collaborating as a duo, the music they make is amazing. Ki is their latest duet album and their tenth as a duo and surprise, it's an ...
Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance
by Jack Kenny
Cuban Cubism is central to Aruán Ortiz's musical identity--but in this album, his vision extends far beyond. While the 1930s Negritude movement was a literary endeavor, Ortiz seeks to embody that movement not through words but through music. His compositions channel their spirit with abstraction, tension, and a deep sense of diasporic reflection. Ortiz, ...
New Music From Bailis, Petrillo, Ortiz & More
by Bob Osborne
A selection of brand new releases from around the world together with four more great examples from the recent re-issue of the Strata-East catalogue provides for a fascinating two hours of music. Playlist David Bailis “Ordinary Trash" from Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) 00:00 Pat Petrillo “Late Night Diner" from Contemporaneous ...
