NOVA CUBA UNBOUND / Copenhagen Jazz festival

Name: NOVA CUBA UNBOUND / Copenhagen Jazz festival
Start: 2026-07-07T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-07T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Musikcaféen

Schedule

Tue Jul 07 2026 at 09:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Musikcaféen | Copenhagen , SK

Nova Concerts Series brings Nova Cuba Unbound to Musikcaféen as part of Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2026: two nights of Cuban music in motion, contemporary, diasporic and alive with pulse. This is Cuban music in the present tense. Across two evenings, Nova Cuba Unbound opens a space for music shaped by movement, memory, rhythm and encounter. Music carried across cities, transformed by distance, and charged by the creative energy of now.
Night One: Tuesday, July 7
Jay Kalo & New Cuban Jazz Experience Four Cuban musicians. One night. A sound that belongs to no single city or scene. On July 7, Jay Kalo , one of the most exciting young drummers to come out of Havana in years, joins pianist Aismar Simón Carrillo, bassist Yasser Morejon Pino, and percussionist Eliel Lazo for an evening of original Cuban Jazz shaped by Afro-Cuban rhythmic language, contemporary improvisation and diaspora energy.
At the centre is Jay Kalo. Born in Havana, the 27-year-old drummer and composer plays with the force and maturity of someone far beyond his years. Trained at Cuba's Escuela Nacional de Arte and twice winner of Cuba's International Drum Festival, he was only 17 when he performed at Jazz at Lincoln Centre alongside Wynton Marsalis.
Eliel Lazo brings the music into full motion. One of Copenhagen's most celebrated Cuban musicians and a Danish Music Award winner, he has a career that includes collaborations with Chucho Valdés, Herbie Hancock and the Danish Radio Big Band.
This is a one-night constellation: four Cuban voices, one stage, and a sound moving freely between memory and now.
Night Two: Saturday, July 11
Eminente All Stars Trio Eminente was born in Copenhagen in 2023, a trio of Cuban musicians who carry the deep roots of son cubano into everything they play. On July 11, they expand into something bigger.
For one night at Musikcaféen, Trio Eminente becomes Eminente All Stars: an eight-piece ensemble that takes the trio's original compositions and pushes them into the territory of timba, Cuba's most rhythmically complex and physically irresistible urban sound. Two trombones, congas, timbales, piano, guitar, bass and voices. The foundation is traditional. The force is NOW.
Eminente All Stars: Beni Henri · Tony Moreaux · Lisandro Bienes Eliel Lazo · Yohanier Iznaga · Mia Engsager · Jakob Johansen · Rune Thorsteinsson Two concerts. Two nights. Once-in-a-lifetime musical experience.
Tickets
Night One · July 7 — 250 kr Night Two · July 11 — 250 kr Series Pass · Both Nights — 400 kr (Save 100 kr)
Practical Information Venue: Musikcaféen, Copenhagen Doors: 20:00 · Concerts: 21:00