Alberto Miranda is a Cuban bass player who is directing a very fresh Latin jazz fusion project with a very particular sonority. The project reflect a technical and generic multiplicity simultaneously. This style is a mixture of a sweet melody, elaborate arranges and yet technically demanding bass playing in order to describe images through modern Jazz music.

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Alberto Miranda was born in Havana, Cuba into a musical family. Starting on the classic guitar at the age of 10 in Adolfo Guzman Conservatory, Miranda switched to electric bass at 15 and then to musical composition in Superior Institute of Arts in Havana, Cuba. Miranda first burst in the jazz scene in 2005 with the Gala Mayor’s trio. Here he began to make his first jazz compositions in which he acquired second place in the JOJAZZ (young jazzman festival) still being under the age of 21. 

Miranda’s versatility as an instrumentalist and composer reflect a technical and generic multiplicity simultaneously. His style goes from the sweetness of a soft melody while alternating to complicated technicalities. Alberto has been highlighted for the treatment of harmony in his bass compositions and small formats as well as developing a descriptive music into his jazz style. Miranda has shared the stage with musicians of several genres like Trova, Funk, Timba, Salsa, Jazz, Pop and many others. This has given him a spectrum of musical trends to store in his career as a musician. Besides having recorded an album with “NG La Banda”, one of the elite groups of Cuban musicians, he has also ventured into producing theater music for soundtracks and doing live music for plays.

Apart from being an accomplished musician, Miranda has also participated in the academic arena as a music educator making several workshops about Cuban music for all instruments, composition techniques, electric bass and double bass clinics in Italy, Mexico, Cuba, Denmark, Germany and Slovenia. At the age of 18, Alberto won the award for best young teacher in the Vocational School of Juan Pablo Duarte, boosting his name in the world of music. Two years later, Miranda’s name spread like fire which allow him to open his own academy developing the conception of the Cuban bass soloist. Moving to the United States to further his passion and career of Music, Alberto currently directs a project called “Alberto Miranda’s Latin Jazz Project” which exposes the materialization of Cuban musical poetry between jazz and eclectic trends of recent years.

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