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Guitar player at Jazz Cafe

Guitar player at Jazz Cafe

Centrally located, in front of two big Hotels, the Riviera and the Melia Cohiba, and less than 150 meters from the Malecon, at the intersection of Avenida Paseo and 1st Street, on the top floor of the Galerías Paseo Shopping mall in the Vedado neighborhood, the Jazz Café is for jazz lovers, the music of musicians, (I include myself in this category, I confess). It is an exclusive temple and unique place for jazz. Here you can see for yourself that Cuban jazz is alive and well.

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Pico Blanco, a bar known as the "Rincon del feeling"

Pico Blanco, a bar known as the "Rincon del feeling"

The Bar Pico Blanco is located very close to the birthplace of a genre of music called “feeling”, in the Cayo Hueso neighborhood, specifically the famous Hammel Alley. The Bar is in the Hotel Saint John’s, on 0 Street, between 23rd and 25th, in the Vedado neighborhood.

What is this “feeling”, that the Cubans have taken from English?

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