Jazz con sabor Peruana
(Jazz
with the Taste of Peru)
TUMI 155
Track
Listing:
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- Para Cantar |
7 - That's All |
| 2 - Desdén |
8 - El Mayoral |
| 3 - Hay Dias Como Hoy |
9 - Quiero Que Estés |
| 4 - My Romance |
10 - Agua De Beber |
| 5 - Ayer Te Vi |
11 - My Favorite Things |
| 6 - Campesina |
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Jazz - in Spanish - from Peru? Surely not? Don?t Peruvians only produce Andean music on bamboo panpipes and quena flutes? Afro-Peruvian dance sounds to the tune of cajón box? Or chicha dance music?
Pilar de la Hoz puts paid to the idea that Latin Americans - outside Brazil - don?t sing jazz. And indeed her project is to meld Brazilian jazz styles that first radically captured the continent's imagination in the 1960s with an Afro-Peruvian sensibility and a clear international vision. In recent Lima 2007 Afro-America concerts she has explored the rhythmic diversity of Afro-American musics.
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Born December 4th 1960 in Peru's capital Lima to a pianist mother Dora, with a grandfather Angel who sold and tuned pianos, and an uncle Alfredo who some thirty years back was considered one of New York's top Latin boogaloo pianists, de la Hoz's upbringing has been urban. From childhood her mother played her a diet of jazz and bossa nova which her keen ears lapped up inspiring her to sing from an early age. Her mother who played everything she heard and liked by ear nurtured her daughter with tangos, boleros, Peruvian waltzes and a host of other popular song. Pilar herself sang in an English choir. By the time Pilar was sixteen she was invited by a group of professional musicians at the National Conservatory to join the group Bossa 9. Pilar sang Brazilian-Portuguese phonetically while learning properly at night-school. In 1991 they recorded ?Canta Brasil!? released in Peru and later Spain. Meanwhile as a day job she worked at a career as bi-lingual secretary and finance administrator while spending all her free time singing.
| With a passion for gospel and blues and name checking Brazil's Elís Regina, Nara Leao, Leny Andrade and North America's Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Barbara Streisand as influences, as well as Peruvians Chabuca Granda, Eva Ayllón and Cecilia Bracamonte, de la Hoz's vision is eclectic. On the one hand she pays homage to Peru?s Afro-Peruvian roots, including guitarist Sergio Valdeos and cajón box maestro Juan Medrano Cotito, two musicians who have played with Grammy Award winning Afro-Peruvian singer Susana Baca in her band. On the other her instinctive Brazilian leanings underline everything: in 2004 she sang in a series of concerts ?Jobim Vive? dedicated as a tenth anniversary homage to Tom Jobim the great boss nova composer. Tune in Sundays to Telestereo 88.3FM at 6pm and you will hear de la Hoz?s weekly programme Ilha Brazil dedicated to Brazilian popular music broadcast live from Cocodrilo verde (www.telestereo.com). |
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Pilar de la Hoz?s international reputation has led her to be invited by Brazil's Joyce to guest in Lima concerts. She has also guested with various guitarists including Argentina?s Luís Salinas and Brazil?s Roberto Menescal. Her next project will focus on guitar and voice involving many of these musicians.
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Still her home territory is intimate and local playing in Lima's few jazz nightspots such as Jazz Zone, Satchmo Jazz Bar and Cocodrilo Verde. There you will find her with members of her present group including Valdeos on guitar, Pérez on double-bass, Sarrín on drums, Medrano Cotito on cajón box. They bring the textures and timbres of creole, Andean and other Peruvian music into the mix.
| Whether singing at the Festival of Inca Music of the Sacred Valley in Urubamba near Cuzco; or boleros at Cuba's annual Boleros de Oro Festival; or at Jazz Festivals in Arequipa, Lima and most recently Havana, alongside Cuba?s legendary pianist Chucho Valdés at Havana's Jazz Plaza, Pilar de la Hoz aims to fly high. And as Ramón, her late father was a Peruvian airforce pilot, she knows what that means! Always with sabor Peruana of course! |
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