Susana Baca - Sesc Jazz: Susana Baca (Ao Vivo) '2023

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As one of three such releases – along with Ray Lema and jazz flautist
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Sway – the grande dame of
Afro-Peruvian music is captured live at the Sesc Pompeia jazz festival in 2022.
Unsurprisingly, it’s a cultured set that creates a palpable connection
with the audience. Backed by a polished band of acoustic and electric guitar,
double bass, percussion, piano or violin and backing vocals, the great singer
offers 12 self-penned or adapted numbers, with the opening ‘La Herida
Oscura’, the Argentinean classic ‘Milonga de Mis Amores’ and
the Puerto Rican salsero Tite Curet Alonso’s ‘Sorongo
(Congo)’ among others taken from Palabras Urgentes (a Top of the World
selection in #172). There are highlights galore: the way, for example, that Juan
Carlos Aliaga del Bosque’s violin discretely asserts itself on the
opener; the tasteful percussion work on ‘Molino Molero’; the
dramatic electric guitar solo on ‘Cambalache’; the singer’s
a cappella rendition of ‘Yo Vengo a Ofrecer Mi Corazón’; and the
way that singer and band interlock so seamlessly on ‘Maria Lando’.
Susana Baca is in fine voice, her band is exemplary and the mix is spot on: an
invaluable record, therefore, of a living legend live in concert.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Susana Baca - La Herida Oscura (Ao Vivo) (5:30) 
1.02 - Susana Baca - Juana Azurduy (Ao Vivo) (4:20) 
1.03 - Susana Baca - Molino Molero (Ao Vivo) (4:44) 
1.04 - Susana Baca - Color de Rosa (Ao Vivo) (5:54) 
1.05 - Susana Baca - Cambalache (Ao Vivo) (5:00) 
1.06 - Susana Baca - Milonga de Mis Amores (Ao Vivo) (3:42) 
1.07 - Susana Baca - Yo Vengo a Ofrecer Mi Corazón (Ao Vivo) (3:03) 
1.08 - Susana Baca - Maria Lando (Ao Vivo) (4:53) 
1.09 - Susana Baca - Negra Presuntuosa (Ao Vivo) (6:58) 
1.10 - Susana Baca - Canterurias (Ao Vivo) (5:06) 
1.11 - Susana Baca - Sorongo (Congo) (Ao Vivo) (3:14) 
1.12 - Susana Baca - Las Caras Lindas (Ao Vivo) (11:19) 

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