Harold López-Nussa

Cuba's Harold López-Nussa is a gifted pianist whose immense skills have found him creating sophisticated post-bop jazz with Cuban and Afro-Latin traditions. A winner of the 2005 solo piano contest at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, López-Nussa garnered attention for albums like 2007's Canciones and 2013's New Day. Along with collaborations with Christian Scott, Gilles Peterson, and Alune Wade, he has continued to release his own dynamic albums, including his 2018 trio date Un Dia Cualquiera and the 2020 quartet session Te Lo Dije. After three acclaimed albums for Detroit's Mack Avenue, López-Nussa signed with Blue Note and made his leader debut with 2023's Timba a la Americana. He returned to the label for 2025's Nueva Timba.