MPT Trio: Volume 1
Cal Cashin
, January 22nd, 2021 09:18
With a new trio featuring Hery Paz and Juanma Trujillo, Francisco Mela offers a bold mix of free jazz and Caribbean folk music
Cuban jazz drummer Francisco Mela boasts a storied career. Alongside 00s albums as a band leader on Blue Note’s sister label, he’s spent the last two decades garnering acclaim collaborating with the likes of Esperanza Spalding and Kenny Barron. Now, as the curtain rises on 2021, we are greeted with the mercurial sticksman’s boldest and bravest work to date, with his new band, the MPT Trio.
The MPT trio are completed by Cuban tenor sax player Hery Paz, and Venezuelan guitarist Juanma Trujillo, and on