New Mezcla Video and Kickstarter Campaign

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Mezcla , which is performing in Oakland California June 26 and Chicago June 29, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign which includes some premiums for those of you who sign on as backers. The video (click "play" above) explains more with some live footage of band members here and some of Mezcla's music.

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 12:04 AM

ENGLISH: So many masters of the piano have visited Chicago this year - Elio Villafranca, Manuel Valera, Aruán Ortiz, Chucho Valdés, Chuchito Valdés, Harold López-Nussa - and more will come. This week brings

Roberto Fonseca
Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
7:00pm and 9:30pm
One of Cuba's most important young Jazz and Fusion pianists and composers and a half-brother of Chuchito Valdés. Roberto gave a phenomenal concert at the Lotus Festival in Bloomington, Indiana last year. You can read a review of that performance here and his recording Yo here.

ESPAÑOL: Tantos maestros del piano han visitado Chicago este año - Elio Villafranca, Manuel Valera, Aruán Ortíz, Chucho Valdés, Chuchito Valdés, Harold López-Nussa - y más vendrán. Esta semana trae

Roberto Fonseca
Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse, Chicago, IL
Miercoles, 22 de octubre, 2014
7:00pm y 9:30pm
Uno de los más importantes jóvenes pianistas y compositores en Jazz y Fusión en Cuba y un medio hermano de Chuchito Valdés. Roberto dió un concerto fenomenal en el Lotus Festival en Bloomington, Indiana el año pasado. Puede leer una reseña del concierto (en ingles) aquí y de su grabacion Yo aquí.

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 12:04 AM

The fourth annual Festival Cubano in Chicago expands to three days, and the closing act is Manolin, El Medico de la Salsa. Read all about it here...

...and remember, Mezcla is at the Old Town School of Folk Music Saturday, June 29. If you have been reading us lately, you already know why you need to go. If you haven't, where have you been?

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 12:04 AM

Border-Free, the sensational new album by Chucho Valdés & The Afro-Cuban Messengers, can now be heard on NPR's wonderful program First Listen. This innovative concept lets you try before you buy; you can listen to the album -not just a few seconds here and there, but the actual album - on NPR before it is formally released to the US market, and then if you purchase it through the program's links, a portion of the proceeds helps National Public Radio. This is good for all of us because the overwhelming majority of the radio programs that will play modern Cuban Jazz, Timba and other current Cuban music are on stations that are affiliated with National Public Radio. (See our album reviews in English and en español ,)
You can hear NPR's First Listen on the web here.

The rest of radio isn't always a wasteland all the time, however: in March 2013, CNN radio's Music Notes did a very nice interview in English of Yosvany Terry and Gema Corredera about their recent releases Derramando Luz and Today's Opinion , and you can listen to it here.