FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION
Best Latin Jazz Album
The Drum Also Sings
Best Jazz Album
The Drum Also Sings
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
The Drum Also Sings
Best Latin Jazz Performance
Tu Resiliencia Es Resistencia
Best Ancestral Performance
Añay Pachamama
Gustavo Cortiñas - DRUMS (center)
Dave King - DRUMS (right)
Isaiah Spencer - DRUMS (left)
feat.
Angelina Suyul - spoken word
La Paula Herrera - vocals
Maryta de Humahuaca - vocals
Angel Bat Dawid - clarinet & vocals
Street Date: June 5th, 2026
Label: Desafío Candente Records
All music & lyrics by Gustavo Cortiñas except:
Etinel Sk’otol T’ixtunel - poem by Angelina Suyul
Añay Pachamama - composed by Maryta de Humahuaca
Psalm 23 - psalm by King David
“This album proposes a musical vision that comes from the roots of our ancestrality and the plurality of peoples”.
“Among the most compelling and thought-provoking releases of 2026…This is not simply a jazz album. It is art in its purest form.”
Thierry De Clemensat
Paris-Move
“The Drum Also Sings stays with you because of the emotional space it opens rather than the sheer force of the playing. By the end of the album, the drums no longer feel purely percussive. They sound vulnerable. Human.”
Tim Larsen
JazzViews.net
“intense, polyrhythmic jazz improvisation…”
Bob Osborne
Different Noises
“Cortiñas makes the drums sing”.
Erika P. Bucio
Periódico Reforma
“One of the most forward-thinking voices in Chicago’s contemporary jazz scene.”
“powerful performance…an electrifying album...”
Mike Flynn
JazzWise
“The album’s opener pulls listeners in with its first heartbeat”
“Cortiñas’s music invokes time and space, and converges in the union of elements that move us through past present and future”.
Vicente Toledo Rohena
Casa de la Cultura Popular - Puerto Rico
“The drums are not only in the foreground here, but they're also to the left and right of you and even in front of you with three complete sets of drums performing music…Connect me to THAT infusion, brothers, and turn it off so it doesn't COOL"
