ZACCAI CURTIS - CUBOP LIVES!

Zaccai Curtis is an award-winning recording artist and producer who recently received the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. He leads his own ensembles, the Zaccai Curtis Quintet and Sonido Solar, and after five successful releases, will release his new album Sonoluminescence in 2026. Together with his brother Luques, he co-founded TRRcollective, a record label that provides musicians with a collaborative space to produce and release their own music. He is also proud to have produced the Grammy-nominated album Entre Colegas by Andy Gonzlez (2016). A native of Connecticut, Curtis moved to New York City in 2005, where he has performed with renowned artists including Christian Scott, Donald Harrison, Cindy Blackman Santana, Eddie Palmieri, Lakecia Benjamin, Brian Lynch, the Mambo Legends, Avery Sharpe and many others. In addition to his performance career, Curtis is a respected educator, teaching at the University of Hartford's Jackie McLean Jazz Studies Division. He is also an author, having written two instructional books: Art of the Guajeo and Theory of the Common Voicing, which support students in their Jazz and Latin Jazz studies. A three-time ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award winner, Curtis is a prolific composer and arranger for his own groups, as well as artists like Little Johnny Rivero, Steve Kroon, Waitiki 7 and Sonido Solar. His quartet was chosen by the U.S. State Department for the American Music Abroad (Jazz Ambassadors) program twice, touring South Asia in 2006. In 2007, he received the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism's Artist Fellowship for original composition. In 2017, he was awarded the Chamber Music Americas New Jazz Works grant, and in 2020, he was named Rising Star in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Please note: If you do not purchase all seats at a table, other customers may be seated with you. If you have any special requirements, please call the box office after purchasing your tickets or at least 72 hours prior to show time. Dinner and Show packages are not being offered for this show, however we do have a menu in the jazz club.