Name: Gustavo Cortiñas:“The Crisis Knows No Borders” Album Release
Start: 2025-04-11T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618

$Gustavo Corti\u00f1as:\u201cThe Crisis Knows No Borders\u201d Album Release$

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Gustavo Cortiñas: “The Crisis Knows No Borders” Album Release

Embracing a multicultural language, while investing in a variety of disciplines within the music itself, Mexican born, and Chicago based composer, bandleader, drummer and producer Gustavo Cortiñas continues to surpass himself in the breadth of his work. “Cortiñas' music is uplifting, robust, melodic, and gets your body moving; it's an exciting blend of the artist's musical influences from jazz and Latin America, including his native Mexico" (DOWNBEAT). This can be heard on his five records as a leader, "Snapshot" [https://desafiocandenterecords.bandcamp.com/album/snapshot] (2013), "ESSE" [https://desafiocandenterecords.bandcamp.com/album/esse] (2017) “Desafío Candente” [https://desafiocandenterecords.bandcamp.com/album/desaf-o-candente] (2021), “Kind Regards / Saludos Afectuosos” [https://desafiocandenterecords.bandcamp.com/album/kind-regards-saludos-afectuosos-2] (2022) and “Live in Chicago” (2024), “the culmination of a decades worth of music” (The Arts Fuse [https://artsfuse.org/288317/jazz-album-review-gustavo-cortinas-live-in-chicago-the-culmination-of-a-decades-worth-of-music/]). “Gustavo Cortinas is a musician with a message, one of social justice. He delivers it in a style that fuses the melodic sensibilities of his ancestral Mexico with the complex syncopations of jazz.” (ALLABOUTJAZZ [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/live-in-chicago-gustavo-cortinas-desafio-candente-records?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2VCmiBUR6HQxWLlbBxIlCXqZpw_u7VTZH0LEGoQqigX_d-rdKZI3In0Z4_aem_ARAEJPfTZxuvbuk6MgdLG9LPAsTau7gjMLc14dsWPcq8WQSDdKqIur-eETMnJbsieL07vvhREN0frDHhHCQsTmSP]). Cortiñas gives life to music that attempts to build bridges and understanding in times of borders and ignorance; words that focus on our feet and the dust on which they walk, instead of the stars under which they dream. Through his participation in more than 30 discographic productions, “Cortiñas’s deft touch reaffirms his status as one of the great drummers in the City’s new guard.”(ChicagoReader) [https://chicagoreader.com/music/emily-kuhn-ghosts-of-us/]. On his sixth discography production “The Crisis Knows No Borders” Cortiñas takes us on a musical journey inspired by global warming and its far-reaching socio-political implications, which transcend borders and manifest in tragic humanitarian crises: armed conflicts, poverty, famine, climate disasters, and immigration.

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> > Mark Feldman - violin
> > Jon Irabagon - sax
> > Dave Miller - guitar
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