A fascinating and surprising pianist, he passes from percussive to swing with a delicacy of touch that creates depth and sparkling pleasure at the same time.

Jazz critics say he plays classical music, loves blues, Monk and Ellington and is swings like the devil.

In his music there are Cuba and the Caribbean but those who expect a taste of salsa are wrong. Marialy Pacheco has a percussive style that immediately brings to mind Keith Jarrett and the melodious lines of Oscar Peterson.

No wonder she was the first woman to win the prestigious Montreaux Jazz Piano Competition and the first jazz pianist in the world to be officially named "Bösendorfer Artist" Marialy Pacheco and Joo Kraus are a unique musical encounter, a combination that creates a new sound and fresh, the result of the mixture of traditional Cuban music, Afro-Cuban rhythms, contemporary jazz and the sounds of the best clubs in Europe.

Marialy Pacheco on the piano, Joo Kraus on the trumpet