Cuba Trip

Havana Art museum

September 12. Cuba. Flute lesson in the morning. More fundamentals in playing Charanga, and Danson. Tomorrow we are going to a jazz club to hear a good friend of the flute teacher. The Cuban Art Museum is quite amazing. Apart…

September 11

September 11. Cuba. Banging on the door at 7am…… Housemate Nui misread his flight details and after a sleepless night in order to adjust his body clock, he missed his flight. He thought it left havana at 7am, but it…

Paul Van Ross has flute lessons in Cuba

September 10. Cuba. Had a great flute class with Evelyn. She’s showing me the roots of Cuban flute music in Danson & Charanga. She’s quite a character and we often share ideas. Her English is very understandable and I think…

Cold chocolate in Havana

September 9. Cuba. Good news. A flute teacher has been organised for tomorrow. I get to study the Charanga style of flute in my final week here 🙂 Free day today. Spent the morning being a tourist in Havana. Walked…

Post recording relax

September 8. Cuba. Slept 10 hours. Needed it. Whilst plowing through an almond ice cream I Heard a bachata version of: – Michael Jackson’s “I just can’t stop loving you, – Lionel Ritchie’s “Say You, Say Me”, The light is…

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