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Description
Aruan Ortiz, celebrated piano cubist, distinguished jazz improviser, award-winning composer and idiosyncratic stylist, presents Creole Renaissance, his second solo piano album on Intakt Records which comes eight years after Cub(an)ism. "Ortiz is renowned for his prodigious technique, and multiple lineages converge in his hands, from Schoenberg, Messiaen, and Ligeti to Bebo Valdes, Don Pullen, and Cecil Taylor", writes Brent Hayes Edwards and adds "Aruan Ortiz's stunning pianis tic reflections on the implications of a Creole Renaissance start here, placing the music within a long history of collective Black study. Ortiz explains that he was inspired above all by the ways Negritude poets such as Aime and Suzanne Cesaire and Rene Menil deployed 'surrealist techniques to shape a new kind of narrative of Afro-diasporic life and history in the Caribbean.' If Ortiz's music is adamantly innovative and forward-looking, in other words, it reminds us of its deep roots in traditions of Black experimentation." Creole Renaissance combines intellec tual depth, emotionality and creativity to create a fascinating musical statement.
Jim Black & The Schrimps
Gregg Belisle-Chi
Aruan Ortiz
James Brandon Lewis Quartet
Irene Schweizer
Alexander Hawkins
Christoph Irniger Pilgrim
Silke Eberhard Trio
Sun Speak
Robert Mitchell
Gregory Groover Jr.
Thom Rotella
JD Allen
The 3 Cohens & WDR Big Band
Wolfgang Muthspiel; Scott Colley; Brian Blade
Rolf Thofte Quintet
