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Eva Novoa: Solo (I) [VINYL] (577 Records)

On her first solo piano recording, Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Eva Novoa explores an intimate and adventurous sonic palette across six original pieces, combining grand piano with Fender Rhodes, electric harpsichord, gongs, percussion, voice, and whistling, creating a rhythmically charged and cinematic performance that expands the expressive possibilities of the solo format.
 

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Eva Novoa-piano, Fender Rhodes, vocals, whistling, Chinese gongs and percussion

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UPC: 736952026088

Label: 577 Records
Catalog ID: LP-577R-5988-1
Squidco Product Code: 37117

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: USA
Packaging: LP
Recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, on October 15th, 2024, by Jeremy Loucas
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"Pianist, Eva Novoa, was born in Barcelona, Spain. She is a jazz pianist and composer but was classically trained as a kid. She studied Jazz in ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya). In 2005 she traveled for the first time to New York where she studied at Ralph Alessi's school SIM (School for Improvisational Music). In 2005 Eva moved to the Netherlands where she studied at Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague/ Royal Conservatoire (Bachelor in Jazz Piano, Master in Jazz Composition while she was awarded with a full scholarship of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science).

Eva has recorded and produced eight albums with her own music as a leader. All her albums have been released on the international jazz label Fresh Sound New Talent since 2012. Her two most recent albums released in 2016 and 2018 got very good press, including two four star reviews on DownBeat, other relevant reviews on The New York Jazz City Record, Jazziz gave a special mention to her track "Déjà Vu" as song of the month in 2018 or Jazz Weekly in California also published great reviews. Her last album Live At IBeam with her Ditmas Quartet was also selected in two All About Jazz radio shows in January 2019 and April 2019 amongst other free avant garde artists. DownBeat magazine selected this same album as one of the best jazz albums of 2018. Her next quartet album recorded in Miami has just been released on Fresh Sound New Talent, Satellite Quartet in 2020. She is also producing her next double trio album release on 577 records label with her New York Trio which she recorded in 2019 with Drew Gress on bass (and modular synth) and Devin Gray on drums. She works with sound engineer and five times Grammy Award winner Jeremy Loucas. She recently went into the studio again at Oktaven Audio where she recorded another trio with world known jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver and Masatoshi Kamaguchi on bass, also to be released on 577 records. Also, in 2021 she has recorded another trio of improvised music with Daniel Carter on saxophones, trumpet, flute and clarinets and Francisco Mela on drums. This project is soon to be mixed and to be released.

Since she arrived to NY, Eva Novoa has performed at venues like The Stone, Barbès, Korzo Konceptions Music Series, IBeam, Nublu, Cornelia Street Café, Soapbox Gallery, ShapeShifter Lab amongst others. She regularly plays with drummers Billy Mintz, Gerald Cleaver, Jeff Davis, Devin Gray, or Satoshi Takeishi, saxophonists Daniel Carter, Ingrid Laubrock, bass players Drew Gress, Matt Pavolka, saxophonist and drummer Oscar Noriega, drummer Tom Rainey amongst others. She has been a student of classical teacher Sophia Rosoff since 2006. Eva is currently based in New York City since 2012.

While in The Netherlands Eva was invited to play with her quartet Eva Novoa Quartet in the Dutch Jazz Competition 2006. She has been a steady pianist of the West Coast Big Band. They presented their third cd New Dutch in October 2009. With this band she got the chance to play with singers Greetje Kauffeld, Deborah J.Carter and Dutch chromatic harmonica player Hermine Deurloo. She regularly plays in Holland where she has played with musicians like Ruud Jacobs, Greetje Kauffeld, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, Marcel Serierse, Simon Rigter, Ruben Samama, or Frits Landesbergen and has toured with different projects in Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Poland and Belgium. She was on tour with Portuguese singer based in New York Sara Serpa in 2011, on the European presentation of her album Mobile. In Holland she also worked for the Dutch multi awarded musical production Soldaat van Oranje, De Musical which is the longest running and by far the biggest theatrical production ever staged in The Netherlands with millions of visitors."

-Eva Novoa Website (http://evanovoa.com/english)
4/13/2026

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