According to a note from the Prensa Latina news agency, the 18th Leonardo Acosta International Jazz Colloquium In Memoriam will remember the work of that great Cuban musicologist on the 90th anniversary of his birth as part of the academic program of the Jazz Plaza Festival.
The event, which will take place at the Cuban Art Factory from January 23 to 27, anticipates conferences, record presentations, master classes and panels, all activities in which the theoretical and the practical will merge.
According to musicologist Neris González, the event is ratified as a space for reflection and debate on issues related to the world of national and international jazz.
Among the topics that the colloquium will address are improvisation in Cuban music and in jazz, the links between jazz and danzón, the management of jazz events in America, as well as actions to protect the status of Creative City of Music, granted to Havana by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture.
The challenges of record production in the genre and the imprint of Cuban jazz players living outside the island will also be discussed, together with the results of national artists in the Jazz Piano Competition, of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Likewise, the 65 years of Hernán López-Nussa, one of the most outstanding Cuban pianists, the 65 of the trumpeter José Miguel Crego (El Greco,; and the 45 of the Center for Research and Development of Cuban Music) will be celebrated.
Acosta received the National Literature Prize (2007) and the National Music Award (2014), in both cases for the work of a lifetime.
