From jazz to Spain to New Orleans

From jazz to Spain to New Orleans - a decade of Cuban fusion

BY ELIZABETH HANLY
Artburstmiami.com

In a combined concert that promises to be both sublime and rip-roaring, three generations of Cuban and Cuban diaspora musicians come together on Saturday at Miami-Dade County Auditorium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of FUNDarte’s Global Cuba Fest.

(The festival concludes March 24 to 26 with “Ten Million,” a play from Havana that portrays the tumultuous aftermath of the Revolution during the 1970’s and 1980’s.)

The elder statesman of the group is Cuban pianist and composer Ernán López Nussa, who's been compared by the Jazz Times to none less than Grammy-award winning Irakere founder Chucho Valdes, the godfather of Cuban jazz piano. “Like Chucho before him, Nussa is an insatiable musical omnivore with an intellect to match his giddy enthusiasm," Peter Margasak wrote in the magazine in 2001.


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