TITLE: “Offshore Echoes” (Patois Records)

ARTIST: Kristina

STARS: 3 Out Of 5 Stars

SOUNDS LIKE: Well known pop and jazz songs filtered through a multicultural musical kalediscope. Celebratory and joyous.

Latin jazz vocalist Kristina takes a few well known pop and jazz compositions and adds a multicultural bent to them.

Borrowing rhythms and cadences from Brazil, Latin and Africa she gives ethnic interpretations to tunes like Sting’s “Tea in the Sahara” and the jazz classic “Tenderly.” And it all works in a joyous, breezy fashion.

Joined by a group of some of San Francisco’s most celebrated musicans that includes trombonist Wayne Wallace an Pianist Frank Martin, Kristina shows a lot of promise on her debut album “Offshore Echoes.”