Harold López-Nussa - Nueva Timba [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 7834302
Barcode: 602478343025
Release Date: 05 Sep 2025
Genre: Jazz

With its mix of Caribbean, African and European rhythms, Latin Jazz has always been an evolving fusion of music. Taking the form forward are the pianists like Chucho Valdés, who revolutionised Cuban music with Irakere, the fusion group he founded in Havana in 1973, before joining the Blue Note roster in the 1990s.

Treading in the formidable footsteps of Chucho Valdés, and another great Cuban pianist on Blue Note, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, is Havana’s Harold López-Nussa. “Chucho and Gonzalo are both my reference and inspiration so I am blessed to be following them at Blue Note,” he says. “I learned so much from them both, but it’s too much for me to think of myself as a continuation.”