Chano Dominguez Trio Comes to The Blue Note Jazz Festival

On June 26th The Chano Domínguez Trio will appear on a double bill with The Pablo Ziegler Trio at NYC's Highline Ballroom as part of the annual Blue Note Jazz Festival. The trio features legendary Spanish pianist Chano Domínguez and two of New York's finest players: Award-winning bassist and composer Alexis Cuadrado, and acclaimed drummer/percussionist Henry Cole.

For over 40 years, pianist Chano Domínguez has been at the forefront of Spain's unique flamenco-jazz scene, integrating these two iconic, improvisatory musical traditions into a seamless, original, cross-cultural sound. With over 20 recordings under his own name - including 2012's GRAMMY-nominated Flamenco Sketches- Domínguez is well known for his collaborations with such greats as Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D'Rivera, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Joe Lovano, and Chucho Valdes, as well as his explorations of the music of Harold Arlen, Theonious Monk, Miles Davis and Joaquin Rodrigo (not to mention his scene-stealing performance in Fernando Trueba's canonical 2004 Latin jazz documentary Calle 54).

Since moving to Brooklyn in 2016, Dominguez has been finding his place in the NYC jazz and Latin scenes, with knockout performances at the Jazz Standard and other venues around town. Together with Cuadrado and Cole, Chano has found the perfect collaborators to combine Andalusian fire with downtown cool and find the place where Miles Davis and Federico García Lorca meet.

"Flamenco and Jazz come from two different countries and cultures," Chano says. "But they share traditions of improvisation and a dream of freedom that Miles Davis recognized immediately. With this incredible trio, we hope to honor and enlarge the vision of freedom that Miles first sketched out over 50 years ago."

Earlier this month Mr. Dominguez released the album Chano & Colina, his latest recording for the Sunnyside label. The album captures Dominguez alongside his old friend and collaborator, Spanish bassist Javier Colina, in concert at Madrid's Sala de Camara del Auditorio Nacional de Musica, on January 2017. It's an intimate and beautiful record that invites the audience to listen in on the duo's extraordinary, decades-long musical rapport.