Jazz International Festival Plaza: The mystery of vibration that captivates musicians in Cuba

A conglomerate of more than 1,200 artists between national and international.

This year, the International Jazz Festival Plaza fulfilled four decades of expression and vitality in the scenarios of Havana, Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba.

Roberto «Bobby» Carcassés conceived in the late 1970 of cinema and ballet.

Bobby Carcassés, a musician born in Kingston, with Cuban nationality, because his grandfather was consul of Cuba in Jamaica, he said in an interview for the information agency Sputnik Mundo, that the largest of the Antilles is “a mystery in the sense of vibration, Attraction, beauty, and the feeling of Cubans captivates musicians; This appointment is a tradition because our country is a great power of jazz ».

“There were many American artists who arrived in Cuba in the foundational stages and during the consolidation of Jazz Plaza, from the American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie -who first landed for the first time in Havana in 1977 -to the saxophonists Richie Cole and Steve Coleman, And the bassist Charlie Haden, ”he added.

Regarding this edition, he commented that the Jazz Plaza gathered around 400 international artists, “mostly from the United States, Italy and Colombia”, along with more than 800 national interpreters, who participated in a day of 300 coonciertes in various cultural and academic spaces from the January 26 until February 2, to commemorate the 40 years of the genre in Cuba.