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Take Five With Kat Parra
by AAJ Staff
Meet Kat: Kat Parra easily crosses over from classic jazz to steamy Latin jazz without missing a beat. The essence of Kat's musical journey is her ability to combine a mixture of different international styles to create a unique sound that is all her own.Kat's focus, along with classic jazz standards, is the creation of new sounds around Spanish Sephardic music, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Peruvian, South American folklore, and a little bit of Brazil tossed in for extra flavor!
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by Dan McClenaghan
Birds in Flight, San Francisco Bay Area vocalist Kat Parra's debut release, could be tagged as Latin jazz, but it proves itself a lot more than that. She stretches the boundaries right off the bat by singing “Mais Que Nada," a much-recorded Brazilian song, with an Afro-Cuban/samba rhythm. The delivery at first is traditional, until Pat Parra, Kat's son, raps in on a samba hip-hop groove, fronting a slapping percussion backdrop that fades back into a swirling arrangement that's lush ...
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