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Magos Herrera: Rebirth in New York

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
June 12, 2014

New York City became the new jazz mecca during the 1920s, when many top jazz musicians from jny: Chicago and the rest of the U.S. migrated to the Big Apple. Jazz musicians from around the globe moved there every decade, knowing New York has some of the top jazz venues in the world, a dozen jazz festivals, and numerous jazz record labels. Competition is tremendous, but “The City of Dreams" remains the best place for a jazz musician to gain ...

Album Review

Magos Herrera: Mexico Azul

Read "Mexico Azul" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 8, 2012

The sultry contralto cracks through the silence and a relatively new voce is discovered streaking across the skies of North America. This is the dark, sensuous voice of Magos Herrera, an outstanding young vocalist from Mexico. The constraints of singing in that register appear not to hold Herrera back for she often lets her voice soar free of the registers in which she is meant to sing. Her great leaps of gymnastic vocal skill are manifest throughout the woefully short ...

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Album Review

Magos Herrera: Distancia

Read "Distancia" reviewed by Holly Holmes

by Holly Holmes
September 18, 2009

Mexican jazz vocalist Magos Herrera may not be a household name among jazz audiences, but she certainly deserves to be. With the release of her seventh album as a leader, Distancia (Sunnyside, 2009) shows off not only her rich contralto voice but also an artist with expressive depth. Distancia is an extraordinarily diverse album. Herrera sings in three languages--English, Portuguese and Spanish--and, in doing so, treads broken ground of Brazilian composers Antonio Carlos Jobim and Milton Nascimento, ...