Edmar Castañeda & Grégoire Maret (COL/FR)

GRAMMY award-winning harmonica player Grégoire Maret teams up with harp virtuoso Edmar Castañeda. The strong musical affinity between them that comes across so vividly in ‘Harp vs. Harp’ is no accident, not least because their backstories are so uncannily similar. Each of them came from his respective country as a callow teenager, and settled in New York. They have not merely survived, each individually, in the often unforgiving creative cauldron of New York’s musical life; each has established a reputation at the absolute top of the game, working on a regular, long-term basis with the best in the business. Each of them has re-written the rule-book for his respective
instrument, both of them unusual in jazz!