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Harold Lopez-Nussa hopes increased exchange between Cuban and American musicians can continue. "I have a lot of hope about this approach," he says. "It will be better for all of us." You can hear Harold Lopez-Nussa's training when he plays. The 33-year-old pianist is reluctant to admit the classical influence on his jazz playing, but he's quick to acknowledge that he, like many other great Cuban pianists, was classically trained.
"It’s both an indictment of the communist system’s failures in Cuba and a testament to its successes that the nation’s most consequential exports are doctors and pianists. The U.S. isn’t directly affected by the island’s medical missions, but the American jazz scene would sound very different without a steady flow of outrageous keyboard talent arriving from Cuba." Acclaimed Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa brings his Afro-Cuban Latin jazz — and view of the world — to our studio.
Cuban pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa’s new, celebratory album, El Viaje (The Voyage) surges with such an abundance of inspiring exuberance, pyrotechnical brilliance, fiery passion, luminous lyricism, rhythmic propulsion and crackling keyboard clarity that you just can’t believe the phenomenal, 30-year-old virtuoso from Havana when he confesses that he was “terrified and a bit shaky” when taking his first giant steps from classical music to jazz.