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Aruán Ortiz

Born: August 22, 1973

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

By James Brandon Lewis

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.

Omni

By James Brandon Lewis

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Omnipotent; The Sermon; Fire in My Bones; Testify; Omniscient; Call to Worship; Line Upon Line; Spirit of the Living God; Omnipresent.

Harriet Tubman, Peter Brötzmann, Angelika Niescier and many exciting new releases

by Jon Greenbaum
April 26, 2026

Featuring music from Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, Ornette Coleman & Prime Time, Elliot Sharp, Ishmael Ali, Ken Vandermark Pulverize, The Sound Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow, Angelika Niescier/Christopher Tordini/Gerald Cleaver, Filippo Sala, Albert Mangelsdorff/Jaco Pastorius/Alphonse Mouzon, Peter Brötzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble/Jason Adasiewicz, Adam Schatz, Chrome Hill & DŌJŌ NPV, Chris Speed Trio, Aruan Ortiz with Andrew ...

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.

Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance

by Neri Pollastri
December 29, 2025

L'avevamo sentito recentemente dal vivo in vari contesti, dal duo con Don Byron al Pinocchio di Firenze fino al quartetto con James Brandon Lewis al Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025 (dove non a caso era stato il vero protagonista), ma l'occasione in cui ci aveva maggiormente colpiti era stato in solitudine, ancora al Pinocchio Jazz, nel marzo ...

Jack Kenny's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Jack Kenny
November 30, 2025

A year is an arbitrary time. The list is chronological by how they came to me. The albums that still stand out are Bone Bells (Pyroclastic Records) by Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson and the sheer professional expertise of Jed Levy Faces and Places (Self Produced). Both albums, in their different ways, exude creativity and joy. ...

From the Distance of My Freedom

November 30, 2025

Album: Créole Renaissance
By Aruán Ortiz
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 7:45

Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025

by Neri Pollastri
November 5, 2025

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
October 26, 2025

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 ...