This album is a dazzling, festive homage to the beautiful country of Cuba. The Dutch trumpet player Maite Hontelé, who lives in Colombia, pays tribute by showing a great diversity of Cuban styles such as salsa, son cubano, chachacha, latin-jazz, changuï and rumba. She does this surrounded by a variety of excellent artists including , , , , ( ), ( ), and . Hontelé's fifth studio album
… was produced by keyboard player and vocalist and bassist and mostly recorded in the legendary Egrem studios in Havana. With elegance and apparently ease, Hontelé interweaves her trumpet lines with those of vocals and combo playing. Cuba Linda is a big swinging party! (SvdP)more