Andrea Motis, who is only fifteen, stands out as one of the main trumpet players and saxophonists in the world of the jazz in the city. But not only this, together with Joan Chamorro, a musician with a successful background, has also revealed herself as an excellent singer who manages to thrill to every note that comes from within.
Precisely, Chamorro conducts the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, the youngest band in Europe, born in the Sant Andreu’s Municipal School of Music, in 2006. In his job as music teacher, he was the one who discovered in the pupil Andrea Motis to the whole new promise of the vocal jazz.
Now, under the leadership of Joan Chamorro, an album has been published where the young star Andrea Motis protagonists a good demonstration of the new Catalan jazz talents. With the name Joan Chamorro presenta Andrea Motis, the disc comes a year after been published by the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.
The selection of songs chosen includes over an hour of classic jazz of the first half of the twentieth century, although there are forays into bossa nova. In this recording of standards, among others accompany, there are Ignasi Terraza, Bobby Gordon and David Mengual.
Do not lose the opportunity to follow them, especially Andrea Motis, who promises to be very successful at the jazz scene. Many people have compared her voice to Norah Jones. Discover them!
SOURCE: BARCELONACULTURA.COM/23.02.2011
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