Emilio Solla & Inestable de Brooklyn

La Inestable de Brooklyn is a nine piece orchestra with an unusual instrumental combination including two reed players, one trumpet, one trombone, accordion, violin, piano, double-bass and drums. This peculiar ensemble, made up of many different smaller units, can project textures and sounds that evoke a wide range of styles and influences. 

Emilio Solla is able to summarize through this small orchestra his different ideas as composer and arranger in a large ensemble format.  During the last few years he has been highly in demand as orchestrator and arranger for larger ensembles for artists such as Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo O’Farrill, both of his own pieces and the work of others. These experiences have expanded his taste for orchestral color, bringing his writing to a new level of accomplishment.

“Handmade is an apologia of the tactile,” states Solla. “We are moving further away from the act of grabbing a pencil to write music, a brush to paint, a book to read. I celebrate the lives of the artists, my peers, who spend endless hours in search of their own sound by playing, blowing, hitting. This is the life of the shoemaker, the farmer, the dancer, a midwife, an oarsman. We are what we do, and what we make.”

Emilio Solla has performed at some of the most iconic venues across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, collaborating with jazz and Latin legends including Paquito D’Rivera, Billy Hart, Arturo O’Farrill, Edmar Castañeda, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the WDR Big Band among many others. His artistry has consistently been recognized with GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominations, and his debut album with La Inestable de Brooklyn, Second Half, was a 2015 GRAMMY nominee for Best Jazz Album.