Event

Paoli Mejias Band

SALSA DANCERS alert! Mejias has been nominated for a Grammy award in the Salsa category and he will devote a major portion of his program to danceable salsa. Please join Salsa leader Sal Castaneda who can help you learn the dances and will be spinning platters after the live ends, until 11 PM.

Latin Grammy nominee Paoli Mejias is a distinguished master percussionist from Puerto Rico, ranked among the best in both Latin jazz and salsa. As a bandleader Paoli fuses straight-ahead jazz with African, Mediterranean & Caribbean folkloric rhythms to create a new dimension of Latin jazz that is global, energetic, and modern.

Performing for more than 25 years, Grammy nominee Paoli Mejías has already distinguished himself as a young master percussionist and is ranked among the best in both salsa and Latin jazz. He has been the preferred congera for many of the most famous Latin Bands of the last two decades, including Carlos Santana, Tito Puente, Miguel Zenon, and many others.

Paoli is now at the vanguard of Latin jazz as leader of his own Quintet, having produced a live performance released on Blu-ray "DE JAZZAMBIA A MI TAMBOR EL CONCIERTO" (2011) and three successful CDs as band leader: "JAZZAMBIA"(2008), Transcend (2006) and Mi Tambor (2004) which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album.