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Axel Tosca Laugart

Axel Tosca Laugart is a Cuban pianist, composer, producer, arranger, educator, and bandleader working across jazz, Afro-Cuban music, hip-hop, and house.

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Photo source · Official artist media

Career Overview

About Axel Tosca Laugart

Tosca's official biography traces his classical-piano training in Cuba, early performance with his parents Xiomara Laugart and Alberto Tosca, and 2005 move to the United States. It follows his New York development through the New School, jazz groups, hip-hop encounters, and a practice that joins Afro-Cuban rhythm with jazz and contemporary production.[2]

The artist biography identifies Tosca as a founding member of (U)nity and documents his 2016 self-titled leader album. His dated news archive separates that recording from later trio work and Louie Vega's Expansions in the NYC, where Tosca contributes an organ feature rather than leading the full project.[2][3][4]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, pianist, and composer

Axel Tosca Trio

Tosca's official news archive documents the trio with bassist Daniel Winshall and drummer David Frazier Jr. in New York and Cuba performances.[3]

Founding member and pianist

(U)nity

The official biography identifies Tosca as a founding member of the cross-pollinated New York jazz group and distinguishes that work from his solo catalog.[2]

Organist and featured collaborator

Expansions in the NYC

Tosca's news archive documents his organ feature on Louie Vega's project while preserving Vega's leadership and the recording's dance-music context.[3]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2016 · Alfi Records

Axel Tosca

Leader, pianist, composer, and producer

The self-titled debut combines Tosca's writing and piano with guests from his jazz and Afro-Cuban musical network.[2][4]

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2019

A Place Where We Can All Be Free

Featured organist with Louie Vega

Tosca's official news archive identifies his organ feature within Vega's Expansions in the NYC preview release.[3]

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2024

Harlem to Havana: Afro-Cuban Modernism, Vol. 1

Composer and keyboardist with New Jazz Underground and Gina D'Soto

The collaborative EP credits Tosca with composition and keyboards alongside vocalist and composer Gina D'Soto and the New Jazz Underground trio.[5]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Fri, Sep 18, 7:00 PM

Lady Stout & Nurenssnce at Black Cat

Black Cat · San Francisco

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Fri, Sep 18, 9:30 PM

Lady Stout & Nurenssnce at Black Cat

Black Cat · San Francisco

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Sat, Sep 19, 7:00 PM

Lady Stout & Nurenssnce at Black Cat

Black Cat · San Francisco

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Sat, Sep 19, 9:30 PM

Lady Stout & Nurenssnce at Black Cat

Black Cat · San Francisco

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Sun, Sep 20, 7:00 PM

Lady Stout & Nurenssnce at Black Cat

Black Cat · San Francisco

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Sun, Sep 20, 9:15 PM

Lady Stout & Nurenssnce at Black Cat

Black Cat · San Francisco

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official artist site and verified listening links

    Axel Tosca

  2. [2] Official biography, education, groups, and leader album

    Axel Tosca

  3. [3] Official dated project and recording archive

    Axel Tosca

  4. [4] Label biography and self-titled album samples

    Alfi Records

  5. [5] Harlem to Havana audio, composition, and personnel

    New Jazz Underground