Corina Bartra is a remarkable musician. A native of Peru living in NY City, she has an extraordinary range and an almost restless musical ability to incorporate exotic traditions into her own unique music.
Amber Light
Takunde
Tributo a Chabuca Granda
Afro Peruvian Jazz Celebration
Corina Bartra & Her Azu Project:
Best Cd Pick of July 25 week, 2009 of Fox News Entertainment.
«In these apocaliptic times, finding an Hispano-American singer who is worthwile is like finding a needle in a haystack. This is why we are grateful for Corina Bartra, an exceptional singer from Peru.»
Latin Beat (October issue 1999)
«Bartra is influenced by Afro-Peruvian music, American Jazz, and the scatting of Tania Maria.» – Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine
azz Times
«There is a slight resemblance to Flora Purim but Bartra’s work is tighter and has more melody. This is exccellent Afro-Latin music.»
«Bartra’s expressive voice flirts with avant-garde techniques whiles she fashions an adventurous program built on exotic, seldom heard AfroPeruvian rhythms.»
Mark Holston, Latina Style
Bambú Sun
Corina Bartra new CD represents a look both back and forward in musical direction. The new album is both a return to the Peruvian artist Afro-Peruvian jazz roots after two wonderful chanting/meditation records, and a look forward to joyful and rewarding musical days ahead.
Bambu Sun reflects a bright and joyous spirit that consolidates the artist pioneering incorporation of Afro-Peruvian and New Latin undercurrents into her own personal creation. Fans of Corina previous jazz CDs, Corina Bartra Quartet, Son Zumbon and Travel Log, will find she has even revisited a couple of the key songs on those records, holding them up to the light of a Bambu sun to find new meanings. It is great to hear Peace Loving People Are on the Rise and its timeless message in a new version.
As always, Corina fronts top-rate musicians like Rufus Reid, Jay Rodriguez, Cliff Corman and Vince Cherico, and their support of her mix of originals (like uajira Son and ol Azabache and covers (Wayne Shorter, Lennon/McCartney) is outstanding. Listen hard and you can hear a lot of things on Bambu Sun: bits of bebop, the complicated rhythms of Peru, energetic male voices on choruses or just exclaiming behind the music (the recording sessions must have been fun). It is really impressive and also the first time to hear in a jazz recording two cajon players playing counterpoint rhythms together on ajoral.
Let hope there is nothing but bambu sun for this engaging artist from now on!
-MARK FOGARTY
Travelog
The newer Trave Log CD is an altogether different story. Here we have Corina Bartra exploring the voice- ancient singing techniques to modern jazz and putting altogether in a brand new way. The tracks feature an extraordinary mix of styles fashioning a brand new world that is wild and mesmerizing.
Please take some time to listen to these musical offerings from this most gifted and unprecedented musician.
Son Zumbón
Afroperuvian music is how Corina Bartra describes the kind of music she makes. Actually, I think there’s more to it than that- a cross cultural mix of American jazz, traditional Peruvian song, African rhythm, and more performed with passion and assuredness by a very strong ensemble of musicians.
Corina Bartra, a native of Peru living in NY City, has released her new CD SON ZUMBON bringing to fruition many years of musical study and collaboration that make her strong singing seem effortless and pure. This music flies right through the head, down through the heart and lifts the spirit. Mark Fogarty summed it up this way:
Spanish and English, Latin and American, African and Peruvian with blues and jazz thrown in these songs are a potent and poignant mix of heart and mind and soul, and a big step forward for Corina Bartra.
I’m thrilled that I’m able to offer you a chance to purchase this rare CD featuring some of the most exciting music I’ve heard in a long time and I strongly urge you to listen in!
I’m fortunate to have a copy of an earlier recording she made Son Zumbon featuring a heady mix of African, traditional Peruvian and American jazz that felt like a fresh, reviving wind and is one of the more unusual «world» recordings around.
Recently I received two more CDs that truly surprised me and are vastly different from each other. Instead of following the path set in Son Zumbon, Corina Bartra spreads her musical wings to encompass a whole new world.
Corina Bartra Quartet
The Quartet CD features several jazz standards expertly performed by Corina’s quartet and includes many originals that range from a pop latin dance number to the humorous Boring Blob. These musicians have been playing together for several years and it shows. I expect this earlier produced recording is closer to the kind of music Corina performs at her many NY City club dates.
Yambambó
Pioneer of Afro Peruvian Jazz, first CD recorded at New York 1985.
Corina Bartra was the first vocalist to fusion both Afro Peruvian and Jazz generes
Pionero en Musica Jazz Afro Peruana. Primer Cd grabado en Nueva York 1985.
Corina Bartra fue la primera vocalista en fusionar ambas corrientes (Jazz y Afro Peruano)
