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Corina Bartra

A sophisticated jazz and contemporary world singer from Peru? -Yes, Peru. In the last 100 years jazz has spread to every section of the globe, bringing forth fine Latin jazz musicians from New York, Cuba and Brazil. And if you haven’t already heard about her, Corina Bartra from Peru….

Corina was the first vocalist to blend Afro Peruvian and criolla music & Jazz. She also pioneered subtle and exciting instrumental textures in her compositions and her arrangements. She writes extensive intros, interludes, and solos filled with inventive rhythms and beautiful harmonies. She also guides her musicians to do so. With this approach, she adds an instrumental section to her unique & historic projects.

Corina Bartra has degrees in jazz percussion from (name schools) and a Master in vocal performance. Like so many jazz masters before her, Corina Bartra resides in the New York area (when she is not in Peru) where she not only plays but can study the works of all those artists who came before her, building the international sound of jazz to what it is today. And making her award – Corina was the recipient of the prestigious Queens Council on the Arts award in 2008. Her vocal winner Bambu Sun stand apart from the crowd. Her music has frequent airplay nationwide and topped the charts in some radio stations. She also got ear play in Europe and Peru were she is an influential artist.

In her new BAMBU SUN she once again dives into the Afro Peruvian sonorities and other Latin undercurrents. She has pioneered a ground-breaking fusion of jazz and afro Latin music with her releases: CORINA BARTRA QUARTET, Son Zumbon, and Travelog, when for the first time one could hear the incorporation of the cajon (Peruvian percussive box) and the festejo groove blended with jazz.

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Album Review

Afro Peruvian New Trends Orquestra with Corina Bartra: Uniting Beats (Ritmos Que Unen)

Read "Uniting Beats (Ritmos Que Unen)" reviewed by Barry Witherden


Most of us are familiar with Afro-Cuban styles, which jazz has flirted with and sometimes wholly embraced since at least the 1940s. The Afro-Peruvian label is probably unknown to most, but Corina Bartra, the director of this project, has been working in this genre for decades, also encompassing various other Latin American traditions, including Brazilian. For some, small doses of Latin jazz may be sufficient--all that clattering percussion and ping-ponging congas and bongos can quickly pall. But Bartra gets the ...

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Corina Bartra: Takunde

Read "Takunde" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Peruvian singer Corina Bartra mixes the Latin-American rhythms of her homeland with the jazz she hears in New York City, where she now lives. She's been doing it for years... decades in fact. Working in a niche market within a niche market, she's met with limited success but has battled on, bravely following her star as time yellows her degrees from Queens College, Long Island University and Mannes College of Music. Bartra's vocal abilities ...

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Corina Bartra & Her Azu Project: Afro-Peruvian Jazz Celebration

Read "Afro-Peruvian Jazz Celebration" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Corina Bartra does more than compose and sing in a style that merges music from North and South America--she lives this style by splitting her days between her native Peru and adopted hometown of New York City. Celebration, her fifth release, blends traditional Afro-Peruvian music with contemporary vocal and instrumental jazz, a fusion brought to life by her band of all-stars from both Peru and NYC. You cannot tell which passages are composed and which are improvised. Neither can you ...

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Sabrina Lastman QNT (Wed) Wendy Luck & Corina Bartra (Thu) & More This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe

Sabrina Lastman QNT (Wed) Wendy Luck & Corina Bartra (Thu) & More This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St.

This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe Wed Oct 17, 8:30PM The Songwriters Beat (Deni Bonet, Kati Mac, Seth Glass, Terence Martin)

Now in its seventh year, The Songwriter's Beat is New York's most popular acoustic songwriter series, ...

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Corina Bartra and her Ensemble at the Open Center Saturday, June 10th 8PM

Corina Bartra and her Ensemble at the Open Center Saturday, June 10th 8PM

Source: All About Jazz

Corina Bartra and her Ensemble at the Open Center

Saturday, June 10th 8PM

$18 (no discounts)

Afro-Peruvian Latin Jazz Featuring Corina Bartra-vocals, Cliff Korman-piano, David Hertzberg-bass, Vince Cherico-drums, Perico Diaz-percussion, Jay Rod Rigriguez-flute & saxophone

Open Center 83 Spring Street (btw Broadway & Crosby) New York, NY 10012 (212) 219-2527 http://mail.opencenter.org/ By Subway R Train To Prince or C & E Trains To Spring St.)

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Takunde

Blue Spiral Music
2017

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Uniting Beats (Ritmos...

Blue Spiral Music
2017

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Afro-Peruvian Jazz...

Blue Spiral Music
2009

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Travelog

Self Produced
2003

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