Members of the Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble are doing something you probably can't: going to Cuba.
The renowned student jazz group will travel to Havana in June for eight days of classes and performances in one of the world's musical hot spots.
"Musically, Cuba is really interesting," said Sarah Cline, the ensemble's director. "It's a lot like New Orleans, like places in Brazil, in that it's a birthplace of African-American music. And the Latin infusion into jazz has become even more intense in the way people are creating music today." The ensemble has toured Europe and Japan in years past, but this is the first time the roughly 25-member group will travel to the Caribbean nation.
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