"Distancia" is the Fifth Studio album

Album

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 by the Latin Jazz

Latin jazz

Latin jazz is the general term given to jazz with Latin American rhythms.The three main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian, Cuban and Puerto Rican:# Brazilian Latin Jazz includes bossa nova...

 Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 Singer Magos Herrera

Magos Herrera

Magos Herrera is a Mexican jazz singer who sings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and has an international following, especially in Latin America, the USA, Japan, and beyond. She has recorded with saxophonist Tim Ries for “The Rolling Stones Jazz Project II” and for contemporary composer Paola...

. Released on May 5, 2009. Tim Ries produced the album along with Magos Herrera

Magos Herrera

Magos Herrera is a Mexican jazz singer who sings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and has an international following, especially in Latin America, the USA, Japan, and beyond. She has recorded with saxophonist Tim Ries for “The Rolling Stones Jazz Project II” and for contemporary composer Paola...

.

Background and Theme

Recorded in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Distancia (JM Distribuidores, 2009), is the title of the latest disc from the singer Magos Herrera

Magos Herrera

Magos Herrera is a Mexican jazz singer who sings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and has an international following, especially in Latin America, the USA, Japan, and beyond. She has recorded with saxophonist Tim Ries for “The Rolling Stones Jazz Project II” and for contemporary composer Paola...

, where she performed songs by her and by composers like Antonio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...

 and Cesar Portillo de la Luz.

Herrera in this record, we shared a delicious potpourri of diverse cadenced and ten original themes "Reencuentro

Reencuentro

Reencuentro is the title of the studio album released by Mexican singer José José in 1977 and the first for the Ariola label.With this album, made in the Music Center Studios, in London, England, José José returned to the pinnacle of success, with the participation of great composers such as Juan...

"; "Tus ojos"; "Staying Closer" and "Alegría", that pulses with scintillating vocal percussion interlacing rhythmic structures Pan-Afro/Americanas, with touches of sonorities that evoke Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

, and pat-flavored flamenco

Flamenco

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, as well as reinterpretations of classic

Classic

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 themes from Antonio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...

, Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento

-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

 and Cesar Portillo de la Luz "Retrato em Branco e preto", "Inutil Paisaje", "Dindi", "Veracruz

Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...

" and "Tu, Mi Delirio".

Distancia in participating musicians of the guitarist Lionel Loueke, the pianist Aaron Goldberg, the bassist Ricky Rodriguez and drummer Alex Kautz and choirs Jennifer and Ingrid Beaujean.

Tracklisting

1. "Reencuentro" (Reunion)
2. "Tus Ojos" (Your Eyes)
3. "New Song"
4. "Retrato Em Branco E Preto" (Portrait In Black And White)
5. "Inutil Paisaje" (Useless Landscape)
6. "Veracruz"
7. "Staying Closer"
8. "Tu, Mi Delirio" (You, My Delirium)
9. "Alegría" (Joy)
10. "Dindi"