Line-up

Dany Noel | Bass & Voice
Italuba, Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, Celia Cruz, Omara Portuondo, Chucho Valdés

Dani Morales | Drums
Patáx, Dany Noel, Gabriele Deiana

Jorge Vera | Piano
Billy Cobham, Jeff Berlin, Patáx, De la Purísima

Style

Afro-Cuban groove and modern Latin-jazz harmony, led from the bass: Dany Noel’s voice-and-bass front line meets Jorge Vera’s cinematic piano and Dani Morales’ propulsive, percussion-aware drums.

Profile

Dany Noel Trio is a Havana-to-Madrid contemporary Latin-jazz unit built around the rare combination of bass as lead voice and bass as melodic engine. Noel steers the music with singing phrasing, percussive articulation and an arranger’s instinct shaped by Cuban popular music and timba. The trio’s sound opens wide harmonic space through Vera’s piano—equal parts lyricism and high-definition improvisation—while Morales supplies a groove language that can pivot from straight-ahead drive to Afro-Cuban inflection without losing pulse or clarity. The result is a compact, high-energy format: tight themes, elastic montuno-to-jazz transitions, and improvisations that stay song-focused even at peak virtuosity.

Details

Dany Noel | Bass & Voice
Cuban-born, Madrid-based bassist and singer with deep roots in son/salsa/timba and extensive work across Latin-jazz and adjacent Iberian scenes. European press frames him as a multi-instrumentalist and producer/arranger as well as a front-line performer. Onstage, his signature is a lead-bass approach that treats lines as melody, percussion and vocal counterpoint.
(“Noel was ripping through a fast solo while simultaneously vocalising it.” — Sebastian Scotney, London Jazz News, 2016-10-02)

Dani Morales | Drums
Drummer/percussionist heard in high-octane jazz-fusion contexts and Afro-Cuban-leaning projects on the Spanish scene. Frequently credited with Patáx and featured in Noel’s “Intercambio” live band format. In the trio, he keeps the pocket wide—driving the form while leaving air for bass-voice phrasing and piano harmony.
(“We finally synced schedules with three ‘monsters’ of percussion: Dani Morales…” — MassBateria PodcastLive, Spotify, 2023-02-02)

Jorge Vera | Piano
Pianist associated with contemporary Latin-jazz and fusion projects, credited in contexts tied to major international bandleaders (e.g., Billy Cobham / Jeff Berlin). Reviews highlight both dramatic pacing and a bright, high-definition piano sound suited to modern Afro-Latin writing. In the trio, he functions as harmonic prism and co-narrator—opening the music with lyric hooks, then pushing it into virtuosic improvisation.
(“Arguably one of the finest young pianists residing in Spain, and perhaps even Europe.” — Raul Da Gama, Latin Jazz Network, 2017-03-03).