Ramón Valle Trio feat. Maite Hontelé

An ode to musical friendship, improvisation, and Cuban music: Dutch trumpeter Maite Hontelé and Cuban pianist Ramón Valle share a musical friendship that sounds like a journey to the heart of Havana: colorful, full of improvisation, and brimming with mutual trust.

Hontelé, a Cubadisco Award winner and Latin Grammy nominee, enchants with a warm tone reminiscent of Miles Davis and Chet Baker. Valle is considered one of the most original pianists on the Afro-Cuban jazz scene; he has collaborated with Roy Hargrove, Marcus Miller, and Chucho Valdés.
The music is a lively dialogue: serious and playful, structured and spontaneous—what Valle calls “levitando”: living in the moment, playing with an open heart.

Ramón Valle (p), Maite Hontelé (flugelhorn), Omar Rodriguez Calvo (b), Rodney Barreto (dr)

in cooperation with the Düsseldorf regional group of the Friendship Society of the Federal Republic of Germany and Cuba (BRD–Kuba e.V.)