Want to make Jazz blend with Indian music:Swiss-Cuban musician

With a keen interest in Indian classical music, Swiss-Cuban musician Yilian Canizares is looking forward to working with musicians from the country to create a new blend of Jazz.
The artiste who is on her maiden trip to India, is in the Capital for a performance, following a show at the Udaipur Music Festival last week, said she is "fascinated and highly captivated" by the richness of the Indian culture and hopes to visit the country again.
"In the past I had the possibility to share stage with a tabla player and it was a great experience! So I'm looking in the future for more exchanges with Indian music and with Indian musicians.

"So far I'm really in love with this country and I hope this is just the first of many times coming here. I want to thank the Indian people for their love and support not only on stage but during my stay as well," the musician told PTI.
While jazz is conventionally associated with saxophones, trumpets and drums, Canizares' jazz blends are replete with sounds of violin, the fascination for which, she says, goes back to her childhood.
"I got fascinated at an early age by the violin's sound and also by all the possibilities of expression this instrument has. It can be a very romantic or a very wild instrument," she says.

Inspired by French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, she blends jazz, classical and Afro-Cuban rhythms to create her characteristic music, which is essentially a combination of the jazz elements of a violin and traditional Cuban music.

Despite her passion for the kind of music she creates, Canizares admits that the genre doesn't have a wide reach and "huge efforts need to be made to draw more people into this beautiful music".
However, she is optimistic about the future of this kind of music with the influx of new artistes who are "bringing something very vibrant to the jazz scene".
The Swiss-Cuban musician has produced two acclaimed albums - Ochumare (2013) and Invocacion (2015).