La Mesha featured at the Texas Jazz Festival
Fri, Oct 16
|Heritage Park
Concert in Corpus Christi at the annual Texas Jazz Festival
Time & Location
Oct 16, 2026, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Heritage Park, 1581 N Chaparral St, Corpus Christi, TX 78401, USA
About the event
Houston jazz group La Mesha, a collaborative group co-led guitarist and vocalist John Calderon and pianist Dr. Jose-Miguel Yamal, will be featured at the 65th Annual Texas Jazz Festival in Corpus Christi. This free, three-day celebration of jazz music is one of the longest-running festivals in Texas and features hundreds of musicians.
Visit the website for more details of all groups performing: https://texasjazz-festival.org/
La Mesha is a collaboration between Jose-Miguel Yamal (piano), John Calderon (guitar and vocals), David Caceres (saxophone and vocals), Mark Simmons (drums), and Anthony McKinney (bass) and is inspired by jazz music and its groove-based derivatives. La Mesha is testing ground for new musical ideas and concepts, heavily drawing from Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and nu-jazz inspirations. Jose-Miguel Yamal is a Chilean-American jazz pianist based in Houston, Texas, with experience performing at major festivals around the world. In his free time, he works as a Professor of Biostatistics at…