Aruán Ortiz on The Jazz Standard With Brenda Sisane

A celebrated piano cubist, distinguished jazz improviser and idiosyncratic stylist, Ortiz combines intellectual depth, emotionality and creativity on his fourth solo piano album, arriving eight years after its predecessor, the much-lauded Cub(an)ism. Where that album offered an undiluted excursion into the crossroads of Cuban rhythms and Cubist abstraction, Créole Renaissance takes a similarly abstract view on the music’s mid-20th century manifestations and the artistic and cultural context in which it took shape.