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Créole Renaissance

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.

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Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance

Read "Créole Renaissance" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

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 ...

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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. ...

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From the Distance of My Freedom

November 30, 2025

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

Article: Album Review

Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance

Read "Créole Renaissance" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
August 28, 2025

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, ...