COLLABORATIVE ALBUM "WINGED SERPENTS, SIX ENCOMIUMS FOR CECIL TAYLOR" (TZADIK 2018) FEATURED AT ROLLING STONES MAGAZINE

At around 11 minutes into “Unveiling Urban Pointillism,” one of the disc’s six solo pieces, the Cuban-born Aruán Ortiz makes his way into a remarkable passage, abstract yet focused. He keeps up a busy, restless pitter-patter in the high register, sprinkling in ear-catching clusters of sustained notes — the sonic equivalent of rain drizzling on a roof. Ortiz isn’t mimicking Taylor. But at the same time, the episode seems inescapably post-Cecil, unthinkable without the example of genre-transcending imagination and intense physicality the elder musician set during his monumental 60-plus-year career. Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stones Magazine.