Estrella Acosta PRESS

“Ms. Acosta is a natural mezzo with a compassionate, golden timbre. Moreover, she can convey a range of mature emotions using admirably restrained embellishments, and with affectionate communication of the poetry…. The delightful whimsy of her interplay with the saxophone of Efraim Trujillo and the piano of the incomparable Marc Bischoff also adds to the marvellous aesthetic of this music. The supple bass playing of Samuel Ruiz throughout, and the masterful rhythmic colours of Enrique Firpi make this music so memorable that you will want to return to it frequently, always to derive immense pleasure from the music and to elevate the spirits with every spin of the recording.”
- Raul da Gama, LatinJazzNet.com

"Because Estrella Acosta is seasoned in the Latin American music tradition, this album sounds like a bell: it swings, introduces you to the Cuban music tradition, gives you a sense of 'joie de vivre' through the mixture of Cuban and jazz music and... gives you a new view on this special mix that was initiated by American jazz musicians in the 1940s and is now given a new handle by Estrella Acosta's approach."
- Rinus van der Heijden, JazzNu.com

"The seven songs, including three of her own, receive an emphatically jazz-tinged treatment with room for improvisation and soloistic excursions, especially by pianist Marc Bischof and saxophonist/flutist Efraim Trujillo. In addition, the sophisticated arrangements full of surprising breaks and twists provide extra listening pleasure."
- Ton Maas, MixedWorldMusic.com

“A project that pays tribute to the deepest roots of Cuban popular music. Sound imbued with the authentic fringes of the Guajiro-Sonero flavor in fusion with echoes of jazz and Afro-Caribbean cadences, in orchestrations of singular harmonic consonance.”
- Carlos Olivares Baró, La Razón, Mexico

"Esquina 25 is one of those albums that creeps up on the unsuspecting listener and burns with a blue, almost imperceptible flame until, by the third or fourth hearing it explodes in the mind's ear. Estrella with her extraordinary contralto... is quite the star in the manner of her expression, her diction and manner in which she delivers on character, gesture and narrative... sings with fervor and soul."
- Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network, Canada

"One of the best recordings of Cuban music realized in Europe... Estrella Acosta is one of the most versatile antillean singers of our times."
- Luis Tamargo, Contacto, USA

"Esquina 25 is een ontspannen en uiterst gevarieerd geheel, met intimiteit en trots gebracht door een tot nu toe eigenlijk wat onderschatte zangeres die hier soepel en losjes door charanga's, chacha's en andere stijlen dartelt."
- Pieter Franssen, MixedWorldMusic.com, Netherlands

A full article in Spanish about Estrella and Cuban country music by Carlos Olivares Baró

"...a happy transatlantic party that takes off and soars!"
- Latin Beat Magazine, USA, Luis Tamargo