Jazz with an urban flavor

Three years on stage have been enough for Guacamole has presence in the Mexican jazz scene. The original group of Xalapa, Veracruz, said that if music students with the concern to share their rhythmic proposal, now consolidated as a band and mark your calendar abroad and throughout Mexico.

Visiting Guadalajara as part of Jalisco Jazz Festival, the band formed by Gabriela Moncayo, Agustín Altamirano, Marcelo Lara, Abraham Rendon, Tote Camacho, Santiago Armijo, Carlos Orozco, Francisco Galan and Adal Pérez, will have two special presentations in the city for show what urban jazz means to them, concept with progressively forged his career.

'' It's a concept that involve many genres, traditional jazz as a base, funk and even rap mix, which is the hallmark of the group, which is unusual. All that creates a fresh sound mix that allows us to have a very extensive 'public' said Abraham Rendon, guitarist of the group.

The musician noted that the idea to try his luck in the music industry arises from the coincidences of the initial members to form a band three years ago while studying at the Center for Jazz Studies (JAZZUV) of the Universidad Veracruzana.

'' The group began with the desire to play, we started five with a more acid jazz concept and after they were adding rappers. For Xalapa it was not new but our proposal for the format, gender our merger, we had good reception by our proposal hip-hop with jazz '.