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
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)
