Gustavo Cortinas - Live In Chicago (2024)

“Cortiñas’s group has its own sound within jazz’s modern mainstream.”

DOWNBEAT

“The culmination of a decades worth of music. Cortiñas and band revel in a live setting. They not only demonstrate their intimate knowledge of the compositions, but express their evident joy at melding their musical skills with Cortiñas’s continuing commitment to encouraging social change through music.”

The Arts Fuse

“Chicago composer and drummer 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

“more than 30 albums confirming his place among the great current drummers of Chicago, his undeniable groove irresistibly draws his playing companions and moves the audience or listeners…no demonstration of strength for the drums but pirouettes, smoothness and subtlety.”

La Gazzette Bleu

“Gustavo Cortiñas has earned a place of prominence in Chicago as one of the important drummers of our day… a set of fiery music that embraces the theme of this column, jazz jumping borders.”

Musical Memoirs