Amalfi in Jazz – Ana Carla Maza Quartet

Ana Carla Maza was born when Wim Wenders was beginning the filming of Buena Vista Social Club in Havana. She first harnessed the cello, an instrument that would become intertwined with her soul, when she was only eight years old and took the stage at ten. At the age of sixteen she moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Musique, and it was by performing in Parisian jazz clubs and cafés that her career began. The young Cuban performer moves deftly between Latin rhythms, pop sounds, jazz harmonies, and classical technique and alternates between French and Spanish idioms in writing lyrics. With Ana Carla Maza on cello and vocals, Norman Peplow on piano, Marc Ayza on drums and Luis Guerra on percussion