Eva Novoa is a New York-based jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader from Spain. Her playing style emerges from jazz's vanguard tradition: it relies on through-composed architectures melding post-bop, modal, modern classical music, Middle Eastern, and Spanish folk traditions to extended improvisation. Fresh Sound New Talent issued 2012's Eva Novoa Trio and 2014's Eva Novoa Quartet. She remained with the label after emigrating to New York and formed Ditmas Quartet with saxophonist Michaël Attias, bassist Max Johnson, and drummer Jeff Davis. Their globally acclaimed studio debut, Butterflies and Zebras, appeared in 2016, followed by Live at I-Beam two years later. 2020's Satellite Quartet debuted a band with guitarist Rainer Davies, bassist Kenneth Jimenez, and drummer Arturo Garcia. Novoa signed with 577 Records in late 2022. In June 2023, the label released Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver, Trio Vol. 1 with bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Gerald Cleaver.