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Kat Parra & Sephardic Music Experience: Dos Amantes
by Woodrow Wilkins
Some music defies categorization. In the case of Dos Amantes, by Kat Parra & The Seraphic Experience, it's the blending of several styles that make genre assignment a challenge; to place it in one area would be to omit others. Parra played piano as a child and later studied flute. After marrying at 18, ...
Vocalist and Composer Kat Parra Returns with Her New Ensemble, the Sephardic Music Experience in Dos Amantes
* Featuring special guests Jason McGuire, guitar; Ravi Gutala, tablas; and members of the Temple Sinai Choir of Oakland * “… a moveable feast of Latin styles... [Her vocals are] beautifully shaped; her grasp of [the] archaic Judeo-Spanish style is remarkable.” — Philip Van Vleck, Billboard Review “… an exceptional world-music ambassador… an album [Azucar de ...
Kat Parra: Azucar de amor
by AAJ Italy Staff
La cantante Kat Parra ha trovato il modo migliore di esprimersi musicalmente confrontandosi con la musica dei paesi di lingua spagnola. Non solo i ritmi più famosi e conosciuti di salsa, merengue e mambo, ma anche canti provenienti dalla tradizione degli ebrei sefarditi in Spagna o afro-peruviani. Il tutto senza mai dimenticare l'amore per il jazz. ...
Azucar De Amor
By Kat Parra
Label: Patois Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Sugar (Azucar de Amor); Por La Tu Puerta; Quitate La Queta; Canción Con Todos; Misty; Un Grito; Pedacito De Mi Vida; A Night in Tunisia; Esta Montanya D'Enfrente; Feed My Desire.Sugar (Azucar de Amor); Por La Tu Puerta; Quitate La Queta; Canción Con Todos; Misty; Un Grito; Pedacito De Mi Vida; A Night in Tunisia; Esta Montanya D'Enfrente; Feed My Desire.
Kat Parra: Azucar de Amor
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The first striking thing about Azucar de Amor, Kat Parra's sophomore effort, is that she has assembled a hell of a band: the credits are littered with Latin music stalwarts such as pianist Jovino Santos Neto, percussionist John Santos, and trumpeter Ray Vega.Those whose names may not be so familiar also sound great. This ...
Kat Parra: Azucar De Amor
by Michael P. Gladstone
Kat Parra is a very talented vocalist who has received a lot of buzz from her two albums to date. Although she hails from San Jose, California, Parra spent her youth in Chile, then moving to the United States and attending UCLA to study classical flute and voice. She boasts a real talent, not only for ...
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 ...
Birds in Flight
By Kat Parra
Label: JazzMa Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Mais Que Nada; Dame La Llave; Softly As in a Morning Sunrise; Alfonsina Y El Mar, Birds in
Flight; Caravan; Oleo de Una Mujer Con Sombrero; These Old Feelings; Kuando El Rey
Nimrod; Quizas Porque.
Kat Parra: Birds in Flight
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 ...
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