BREAKING NEWS!  Join MEZCLA on Dec. 15th

                        for Opening Night of the

                        2011 Havana Jazz Festival! more info


                                Summer/Fall 2012

                                   Bookings Available for North America

                                Inquiries: mezcla@cubamezcla.info

                               

                             • Mezcla’s new CD

                                “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 regularly 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 “Cantos” (with Lázaro Ros) and “¡Akimba!” (2003 Khaeon). Their latest CD was released in January 2010 on the Zoho label and is entitled “See You in C-U-B-A.”


2011 CANADA FESTIVAL TOUR

July 2: Toronto DownTown Jazz Festival

July 4: Montreal International Jazz Festival

July 6:    Cisco BluesFest Ottawa

July 9 & 10: SunFest, London Ontario


US 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)


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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

“Funky... Ebullient... Hot!”

The New York Times