On NUEVA TIMBA, the 2nd Blue Note album by Cuban-born pianist Harold López-Nussa, the jazz vanguard meets multiple eras of Cuba’s musical history with results that are at once accessible, life-affirming & strikingly accomplished. Featuring a core of unmatched talent — Harold’s brother, Ruy Adrian López-Nussa, on drums; Luques Curtis on bass; and the harmonica virtuoso Grégoire Maret — the album presents a definitive vision for the future of Latin jazz. The album is a journey, a deeply personal narrative of trial & triumph rooted in profound life changes which tells the story of a man displaced: a young father finding his way in a new country while missing his homeland & mourning the loss of his mother. Slowly but surely, sunshine begins to poke through the clouds and he discovers a path forward. Consider NUEVA TIMBA musical tears of joy.