Corina Bartra & Azu live in NY tonight

Corina Bartra & her Azu project celebrating the release of their new CD.
Tonight, June 2th at the Gillespie Auditorium at the New York Baha'i Center.
At 53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway).
There will be two sets at 8:00 and 9:30pm.
Telephone: 212 -222-5159
Admission is $15.00 per show, $10.00 for students. Tickets will be sold at the door.
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A Joyous Celebration (by Mark Fogarty)

This CD includes recordings Corina did in Peru with some of the musicians she has worked for the last 9 years and tracks she recorded here in New York with top-notch players she has performed and recorded with these past years. This original Afro Peruvian Jazz pioneer offers us a first quality CD with top-notch players.

Afro-Peruvian rhythms and jazz. Spanish and English lyrics. Music from North America and South America. Originals and classics. Corina Bartra's restless exploration of diverse musical idioms and locales over many years has now evolved beyond study and mastery of these forms into something new, in her fifth CD. To a celebration that synthesizes all she has learned from a lifelong engagement with the music she loves. Afro Peruvian Jazz Celebration embraces the driving rhythms of South American music-the lando, the festejo, the baiao-and links them with the ballads and standards of American jazz to make a joyous combination of the indigenous music of her native Peru and her adopted New York City.

This celebration draws you right into the swirling movement of joyous music. Revel in the Peruvian moment with incessantly swinging tunes like “No Valentin” and “Chacombo.” Then switch to jazz standard like “Stella by Starlight” or Corina's own originals, “You Took Me by Surprise” and “I Won't Regret a Moment.” As with her previous Afro-Peruvian jazz CDs-Corina Bartra Quartet, Travel Log, Son Zumbon, and Bambu Sun, Corina has assembled a world-class set of musicians from both Peru and New York (including Cliff Korman, piano, Vince Cherico, drums, and Perico Diaz, cajon) whose virtuoso talent and infectious enthusiasm turn this spectacular music into a celebration of life, love and eternal rhythm.
--MARK FOGARTY, author of WENT TO SEE THE GYPSY