BREAKING NEWS!  Summer 2010 Mezcla will be touring 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

                              


Mezcla has been a part of the sound-track of the Cuban music scene for the past twenty-five years. Their legendary jam sessions at Havana’s legendary jazz club La Zorra y el Cuervo have included Chucho Valdez, Roy Hargrove, Dafnis Prieto, George Benson, Yosvany Terry, Orlando Sanchez, Wynton Marsalis, Felipe Cabrera, Giovanni Hidalgo and Steve Coleman, to mention just a few who have dropped in during the Havana Jazz Festival (Jazz Plaza) or almost any night.


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.”


Festival Appearances: (partial listing)

Dominican Republic Jazz Festival

Barranquijazz, Colombia

Bogota Jazz Festival

Jazz Plaza, La Habana

Manizales Jazz Festival, Colombia

Gourmet Jazz Festival, St. Martin

Cayo Coco Jazz Festival, Cuba

Bliss Festival, USA

Fingerlakes Grass Roots Festival, USA

Mariannensplatz Festival of World Music, Berlin

Skagen Festivalen, Denmark

Karrebaeksminde Jazz Festival, Denmark

Hafenfest, Hamburg, Germany

One World Music Festival, Køln, Germany

Caribbean Arts Festival, Santiago de 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)


OUTSTANDING (Jens Lohmann, Denmark)


...the integration of the most UP-TO-DATE currents with the richest national ROOTS(La Demajagua, Cuba)


..A MUST for those who are looking for some more heat from their Latin jazz.”  (C. Michael Bailey, 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