Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca Bring Their Concert to NYC this Winter

A jazz music festival is turning heads in Mexico and it's called "The New Standards".

The festival is a music project by Mexican musical theatre director, composer and arranger Jaime Lozano (The Yellow Brick Road Off Broadway) and his life partner Florencia Cuenca. They have put their great passions together: jazz and musical theatre.

The duo is recreating songs from musicals from the 50's to present day such as Tell Me On a Sunday from "Song & Dance", A New Life from "Jekyll & Hyde", Measure the Valleys from "Raisin", among others. Originally they conceived the concert all in Spanish language with themselves doing the translation and adaptation of the songs.

Jamie and Florencia have traveled all around Mexico and South America with this project performing at the most important jazz venues and festivals and they will present this project for the first time in New York City on December 11th at the Metropolitan Room and they are currently working on the album of this project.

Lozano is a musical theatre composer and he has been the only Mexican accepted and graduated from the prestigious NYU program for musical theatre writing at Tisch School of the Arts. He continues to work on a couple of musicals to be workshop in New York City.

Below check out Florenica Cuenca singing "I'm Here" from the musical THE COLOR PURPLE