Nino Ciampa’s debut album drops this week on Truth Revolution Records - not bad for a musician who graduated from college in May. (Photo courtesy Nino Ciampa)
Never, perhaps, has a record album had a more fitting title as percussionist Nino Ciampa’s debut of salsa and Latin jazz – Sin Miedo Al Éxito.
The English translation of the phrase means “without fear of success,” and believe me, it is a very appropriate description of a young musician, composer, and arranger who is by all appearances on a very fast track. He’s barely out of college (a 2026 graduate of the University of Hartford’s Hartt School), but he has already been a bandleader through most of his college experience. And at a time when many recent grads are still polishing their resumes and hustling for entry-level “career track” gigs, the record is coming out – Friday is the official release date – before the ink on his degree is even dry.
Not only is it coming out, it is coming out on the Truth Revolution Recording Collective label, which is chock full of some of the 8495’s best-known and best-established jazz artists, folks like Zaccai and Luques Curtis (the brothers founded the label in 2009), Matt Dwonszyk, Jen Allen, and Peter McEachern.
