Jazz-Fluid Singer Magos Herrera's Rich and Silky Lightness

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 4 p.m.

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The Mexican singer Magos Herrera has a distinctive,\\xa0elegant, and expressive\\xa0voice, and while she\\u2019s usually thought of as a jazz singer, she\\u2019s also done a lot of collaborating with artists from the worlds of pop and classical music. Largely based here in New York, Herrera has recently put out a new album, called\\xa0Aire, which features her own sextet and a full orchestra \\u2013 a kind of communal response to the isolation of the pandemic, when most of the songs were written. Her own band and members of the Brooklyn-based orchestra called The Knights present some of these jazz-fluid songs, rich with drama and feeling, in-studio.

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Set list:\\xa01.Aire 2. The Calling 3. Choro de Lua

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Watch "Aire":

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Watch "The Calling":

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Watch "Choro de Lua":

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