Jazz Articles about Anna Estrada

About Anna Estrada

Album Review

Vocalist Anna Estrada's Volando can be comfortably shelved in the Latin Jazz section of your record library, but Estrada herself more fancifully--and more accurately-- describes it as an exercise in crossing borders. Given the record's title ("volando" means “flying"), it's perhaps more a matter of flying over those boundaries. There are at least four such frontiers across which Estrada and her ensemble blissfully soar back and forth.The key dividing line is that one that separates Latin American from ...

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Anna Estrada: Obsesion

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 11, 2010

Anna Estrada è una cantante attiva nella Bay Area di San Francisco e con questo Obsesion arriva alla sua seconda prova discografica. Accompagnata da un gruppo variabile di musicisti guidati dal co-produttore e chitarrista Ray Scott, la troviamo alle prese con canzoni d'amore delicate e leggere, declamate in portoghese, in spagnolo e in inglese, senza apparente difficoltà di padronanza linguistica. L'impostazione della voce appare piuttosto tradizionale, più vicina a modelli brasiliani di parecchi anni fa che non alle recenti esplosioni ...

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Anna Estrada: Obsesion

Read "Obsesion" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 20, 2009

When Elis Regina died, most Brazilians thought that the vacuum created by her loss could not be filled. Then along came Rosa Passos and Anna Estrada. The two vocalists did not jostle for a position in the vacant slot that Regina left behind, however both have filled it individually with the extraordinary breadth and scope of their talent. Passos stays within the Brazilian ethos more often than not, and if Obsesion is anything to go by, then Estrada appears to ...

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Anna Estrada: Sonando Vuelos

Read "Sonando Vuelos" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 20, 2008

As long as she could remember, Anna Estrada has always had a dream about flying and that dream finally takes flight with her exceptional debut Sonando Vuelos (Dreaming Flights), an eclectic blend of primarily Brazilian and Latin jazz music propelling the sound of bossa nova, samba and familiar Latin jazz rhythms to new heights. A few years ago, Estrada, a native of San Francisco and an actress in the Bay Area theatre community, began to pursue her lifelong dream of ...