Romanian Jazz, Global Pulse

This February, New York gets a first listen to one of Europe’s most exciting new jazz voices. AMPHITRIO, a boundary-pushing trio from Romania, makes its U.S. debut with a four-date mini-tour that moves from downtown Manhattan to the Midwest and back—plugging Eastern European imagination directly into the American jazz bloodstream.

Presented with the support of RCI New York as part of the Jazz Jamboree concert series, the tour highlights a band that treats jazz not as a tradition to preserve, but as a language in constant motion. Formed in 2020, Amphitrio—Andrei Petrache (piano & composition), Mike Alex (double bass), and Philip Goron (percussion)—blend contemporary jazz with Nordic atmospheres, Balkan rhythms, flashes of rock energy, and subtle electronic color. The result is music that feels cinematic and intimate at once: exploratory, groove-driven, and emotionally direct.

The tour kicks off February 6 at Nublu, the legendary Lower East Side venue long regarded…