Sexteto Café, Latin Jazz Quintet

Dorance Lorza and Sexteto Café play their instrumental Mambos as a Quintet.
All original material has been recorded between 1999 and 2024.

Sexteto Café have been well known on the London Salsa scene for many years, representing the only Latin vibraphone Sextet in the UK. Their recorded music is widely played throughout the world, frequently heard on Colombian national and international latin radio. Their nine albums showcase a diverse range of work, from hard-hitting salsa dura to Latin Jazz, and in 2022, they released Circles of Time, an instrumental album featuring twenty-eight musicians. Many of these instrumental works started life as instrumental mambos although their rhythms include Cha Cha Cha, Cumbia and more.

Line-up:
Vibraphone: Dorance Lorza
Grand Piano: Anna Gillespie
Bass: John Carlos Ayarde
Timbales: Philip Kapadia
Congas: Julian Arenas

“Sexteto Café are one of the best known Vibraphone Sextet’s playing and recording today. They have the signature swing that has made all of their sextet’s predecessors legends in the Latin music genre.”
– Ray Cruz (Hawaii Public Radio)