“…people have jazz, have rumba, salsa, they have rock-n-roll, they have son, you know... So it seems logical to have musicians who would also like to play all of that stuff.” --- Pablo Menéndez
latter 1980s and early 90s this band had a string of big hits, or perhaps, as its name ("Mixture") implies, Mezcla crosses so many musical boundaries in its repertoire. After years of fighting the U.S. State Department, Menéndez was finally able to return home with his band in 1997 and then again in the summer of 1998. Many people attended looking for "salsa," others for political "New Song" music, others perhaps for jazz. What they got was a combination of musical tastes and variety which they had rarely before heard in their lives, played by world-class musicians. Here Pablo Menéndez talks about his life's work, the band Mezcla. |
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Why musicians are attracted to Mezcla How Mezcla became popular in Cuba Mezcla's work with Conjunto Folklórico veteran Lázaro Ros and the Cantos recording |
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Interview With Pablo Menéndez © 1998 - Louis Head | |||||
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Calle 94 #110 | |||||
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