Magos Herrera

[kh1958]

[kh1958]

Here are a couple more songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DslfVT7sIQ0...ted&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VYfk3G4pe8

[kh1958]

A recent live performance video, playing in a Brazilian style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOmV7Mo2qg

[kh1958]

Magos Herrera's first CD on an American label was released this past week--Distancia on Sunnyside.

I was quite excited to receive it and listened repeatedly yesterday.

Aaron Goldberg has taken over the piano chair in her group (and plays superbly), and Lionel Loueke guests on guitar (I like him better here than on his Blue Note recording).

Songs are performed in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Highlights among the original compositions include the song that leads off the album--Reencuetro (Reencounter) and New Song (a prior version appeared on her wonderful preceding recording, Soliluna). There's a wonderful Spanish language version of Milton Nascimento's Vera Cruz, and a very nice version of Jobim's Retrato Em Branco E Preto.

She's appearing at the Jazz Standard in New York on May 20. Here's her current concert schedule:

may 20 2009 7:30p

jazz standard. magos herrera.cd release concert new york, new york

may 30 2009 8:00p

teatro de la ciudad de mexico/cd release concert! mexico df, distrito federal

jul 3 2009 5:00p

philadelphia museum of art philadelphia, pennsylvania

aug 20 2009 6:00p

jazz @ vail square vail, colorado

aug 21 2009 8:00p

dazzle, denver, co denver, colorado

[seeline]

thanks for this, kh! I love her work - especially now that she's moved to the US and is able to focus on jazz. I have a recording of her version of "Drume Negrita" on my blog (see link in my sig).

Lots of good stuff on her MySpace page, too.

* Distancia is on Emusic.com, but there's no personnel info. for some reason. (?) Am downloading it now.

Edited May 11, 2009 by seeline

[kh1958]

thanks for this, kh! I love her work - especially now that she's moved to the US and is able to focus on jazz. I have a recording of her version of "Drume Negrita" on my blog (see link in my sig).

Lots of good stuff on her MySpace page, too.

* Distancia is on Emusic.com, but there's no personnel info. for some reason. (?) Am downloading it now.

Great! I was feeling kind of lonely on this thread.

In addition to Aaron Goldberg and Lionel Louke, it is Rickey Rodriguez on bass and Alex Kautz (from memory, as I'm not at home) on drums--plus two women backup singers who must be sisters on a couple of the songs.

I don't think it has been available on CD in the U.S., but her preceding recording, Soliluna (a collaboration with another Mexican jazz vocalist, Iraida Noreiga) is really good, and very jazz oriented.

[seeline]

Hey, I only saw this thread for the 1st time today, because you bumped it... Not sure where I ran across her work (on a Spanish-language music blog, i think), but she's got other stuff (mostly comps, much more pop-oriented) that's available on Emusic. I wonder if she came to the US so she could concentrate on jazz specifically?

Her version of Drume Negrita is (IMO) really beautiful. (Link to post, with streaming audio.) It's from her album Pais Maravilla.

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thanks muchly for the personnel list and tour schedule. Philly's a bit of a haul for me, but I'd like to get down there soon... might be good to plan that around her gig.

Edited May 11, 2009 by seeline

[kh1958]

Hey, I only saw this thread for the 1st time today, because you bumped it... Not sure where I ran across her work (on a Spanish-language music blog, i think), but she's got other stuff (mostly comps, much more pop-oriented) that's available on Emusic. I wonder if she came to the US so she could concentrate on jazz specifically?

Her version of Drume Negrita is (IMO) really beautiful. (Link to post, with streaming audio.) It's from her album Pais Maravilla.

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thanks muchly for the personnel list and tour schedule. Philly's a bit of a haul for me, but I'd like to get down there soon... might be good to plan that around her gig.

Yes, I also like that song alot; it's on my ipod.

I believe this is her sixth original CD, I have all of them except for the very first one. I've never seen any of her CDs in the U.S.--only at Tower and Mix-Up in Mexico--hopefully the new one will be more available. The last two times I was in New York, Magos appeared at a club a two or three days before/after my visit. (Sigh).

[seeline]

I have a soft spot for "Drume Negrita" as a song, period. And that arrangement + her reading of the lyrics is - for me personally - just about the best I've ever heard. (That said, there are other versions I like just as much, but for different reasons.)