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Pablo Menendez
12+ albums
80sguitar70sjazz90s
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The music of Pablo "Mezcla" Menéndez is as unique on the Cuban landscape as the man himself. The fact that he is a US citizen living in Cuba for over 40 years has deeply influenced his musical choices and outlook. http://www.cubamezcla.com/Mezcla_Home_files/Pablo-Mezcla-Menendez.gif Leader of the Cuban septet MEZCLA, guitarist Pablo Menéndez was born in Oakland, California and is the son of jazz and folk singer Barbara Dane. He moved to Cuba in 1966 at age 14 to study music at the National School of Art in Havana and has lived there since. "Pablo Menendez is not your average everyday Afro-Caribbean or Latin jazz musician. His vision of this music stretches back to traditional jazz and show tunes and up to electric urban blues, modern post-bop, Cuban or Puerto Rican music, and contemporary neo-bop spawned in the 1970s. As a guitarist he is strong individually in these varied styles or disciplines, but as a bandleader he stretches out even further, taking his Mezcla ensemble into these disciplines of jazz and music both beyond and including Latin sensibilities." Michael G. Nastos (Allmusic.com) In the late 1960s Pablo was one of the founders and the youngest member of the Grupo de Experimentación Sonido del ICAIC, a seminal group based in the Film Institute under the direction of the renowned Leo Brouwer. Known for its experimental fusion of Cuban genres with North American, Brazilian and Classical styles, the GES (Experimental Sound Collective) set a whole new direction f
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albums
Havana Blues Mambo
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Cuban Lullaby
I'll See You In Cuba
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Zoho - Latin Jazz New York
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The Ultimate Jazz Archive, Vol. 52
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Cuban Lullaby
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Celeste
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Latin Jazz New York - CD2 - Afro-Cuban
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Grupo De Experimentacion Sonora Del Icaic: Vol. IV
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Zoho Latin Jazz New York
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The Ultimate Jazz Archive
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2005 Havana Blues Mambo