BREAKING NEWS!  Summer & Fall 2010:  Mezcla tours the U.S. and Canada

                                   Bookings Available

                                Inquiries: mezcla@cubamezcla.info

                               

                             • January 2010: Mezcla’s new CD Release

                                “See You in C.U.B.A.”  Zoho Records

                                 more info Now Available!

                              


Mezcla has been a part of the sound-track of the Cuban music scene for the past twenty-five years. When at home in Cuba they perform frequently at Havana's premier jazz club La Zorra y el Cuervo and the Havana Jazz Festival (Jazz Plaza). The ensemble has constantly reinvented itself, highlighting it's members' musical strengths and interests. A multigenerational ensemble, Mezcla brings together several veteran masters with some the best of  young jazz players on the scene today.


In 1993 Carlos Santana said Mezcla was “the cleanest, freshest water I have ever tasted”. They have a number of recordings under their belt including ¡Akimba! (2003 Khaeon) and their latest has an international street date of January 2010 on the Zoho label entitled “See You in C-U-B-A.”


TOUR 2010

May 23:  Sonoma Jazz Festival

May 24:  Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz

May 27:  Yoshi's Oakland

June 1:   Jazz Alley, Seattle

June 2:   Jazz Alley, Seattle

June 17: Rochester Jazz Festival

June 19: Luminato Festival of Arts, Toronto


I'll See You in Cuba is an extraordinary celebration

of Cuba's dance and song. It is a fiercely vivid

account of a culture infused with the most

electrifying elements of Afro-Caribbean heritage.

As a musical odyssey it holds its own with the very

best of Irakere and the Buena Vista Social Club.”

(Raul D’Gama Rose, allaboutjazz.com)

 

CONTACT:

Pablo Menéndez

Calle 94 #110 e/1ra y 3ra

Playa, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba

Tél: 53-7-202-7034  

Email: mezcla@cubarte.cult.cu

myspace:myspace.comcubafusion

Mezcla was featured in the Smithsonian Institute's Documentary on Latin Jazz "La Combinacion Perfecta"


There's a train a comin' and its whistling M-E-Z-C-L-A." (Jesse "Chuy" Varela, KCSM)

MEZCLA direct from Cuba

...a fierce group of musical entities that must be acknowledged. [Their] sole desire is to play great music, mindful of their roots, ever looking forward and always joyful: a real “mezcla.

(Arturo O’Farrill)


..A MUST for those who are looking for some more heat from their Latin jazz.

  1. C.Michael Bailey, allaboutjazz.com