Jorge Luis Pacheco [Cuba] @ SFJAZZ center
CUBAN PIANO GREAT
Jorge Luis Pacheco
solo piano
4 shows!
SAT, May 10 · 7PM & 8:30PM
SUN, May 11 · 6PM & 7:30PM.
Joe Henderson Lab
SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
General Public: 866.920.5299
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About show:
Described by JazzTimes as “a revelation,” the young pianist and winner of the 2014 Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition matches astonishing technique with a mastery of the Afro-Cuban, modern jazz, and classical traditions. He performs solo.
Of the explosively talented pianists to emerge from Cuba in recent years, Jorge Luis Pacheco stands out with a staggering level of musicianship that will be clearly in evidence during this solo performance that integrates electronic loops to create counter lines, melodies, and vamps.
Described by JazzTimes as “a revelation,” the young pianist and winner of the 2014 Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition matches astonishing technique with deep feeling and a mastery of the Afro-Cuban, modern jazz, and classical traditions.
Pacheco has already built a lifetime of major milestones in his growing career – in addition to his Montreaux win, the Havana native won Cuba’s prestigious International Contest for Young Jazz Musicians (JoJazz Festival) in 2007 and the 2013 Best Jazz Project Award and was listed prominently among the other rising stars in Vanity Fair’s article “The Jazz Youth-Quake.”
Pacheco sold out his solo piano debut at Lincoln Center in 2015, and as a composer, he premiered his A Symphony for Jazz Quartet and Symphonic Orchestra at the National Theater of Cuba in 2018.
He has collaborated with Wynton Marsalis, Arturo O’Farrill, Lenny White, Issac Delgado, Miguel Zenón, and Dave Weckl, and has released a trio of accomplished albums including his latest, the 2022 Ropeadope trio session The Lockdown
