Andrea Motis Explained

Andrea Motis
Birth Date:1995 5, df=y
Birth Place:Barcelona, Spain
Years Active:2010–present
Label:Impulse!
Associated Acts:Joan Chamorro

Andrea Motis (born 9 May 1995) is a Spanish jazz trumpeter, singer, sax player and songwriter who sings in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and English.[1]

Biography

From the age of seven, Motis developed musically at the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu (Barcelona).[2] In 2007, at twelve, she began to play in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, led by teacher and musician Joan Chamorro.[3]

In 2010, at the age of fifteen, she recorded an album of jazz standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis.,[4] featuring Bobby Gordon.

In 2012, she went on to record a second album, Feeling Good.[5] John Fordham reviewed it when Motis played at PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2014, stating "Motis has the kind of pearly, barely exhaled voice, paced with canny improv swerves and casual timing, from which jazz celebs are made."[6]

From 1–4 November 2015, Motis (tp, sax, voc), Chamorro (b, ts) and Josep Traver (g) played as the opening act of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club at their "Adiós"-tour concerts in Boston[7] and New York.[8] In these concerts, Omara Portuondo sang Dos Gardenias as an encore, together with Motis.

Motis made her major label debut with Emotional Dance (Impulse!, 2017).[9] In 2019, Do outro lado do azul followed with Brasilian songs and compositions of her own. During Yo-Yo Ma's world tournee The Bach Project, he started the Barcelona project day on 25 September 2019, with Motis in a public park.[10] They performed a duet on El cant dels ocells, a catalonian folk song[11] which has come to world-wide prominence by Pau Casals (Cello).Another version of this duet has been published on Yo-Yo Ma's album Notes For The Future.[12]

2021, Motis, Mike Mossman and WDR Big Band Cologne produced Colors & Shadows.[13] Loopholes (2022) is an album of the namesake quintet which Motis co-leads with her husband Christoph Mallinger, an Austrian jazz violinist.[14]

Private life

In October, 2020, Motis announced the birth of a boy.[15]

Discography

Collaborations

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Llull. Institut Ramon. Andrea Motis Quintet returns to the US. May 7, 2021 . www.llull.cat . en.
  2. https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/escolesmusica/ca/emmsantandreu Escola Municipal Música Sant Andreu
  3. Web site: Andrea Motis, o el jazz nacido en Sant Andreu. Lavanguardia.com. October 29, 2015 . January 17, 2010.
  4. Web site: El joven talento de Andrea Motis se destapa en el mundo del jazz . Barcelona Cultura . Spanish . February 3, 2011 . Ahora, bajo la batuta de Joan Chamorro, se ha publicado un álbum donde la jovencísima Andrea Motis protagoniza una buena demostración de los nuevos talentos jazzísticos catalanes. Con el nombre de Joan Chamorro presenta Andrea Motis, el disco llega un año después del editado por la misma Sant Andreu Jazz Band. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141225065349/http://barcelonacultura.bcn.cat/es/te-informamos/el-joven-talento-de-andrea-motis-se-destapa-en-el-mundo-del-jazz . December 25, 2014 .
  5. Web site: Lindsay . Bruce . Joan Chamorro and Andrea Motis: Feeling Good . All About Jazz . June 17, 2017 . en . September 17, 2014.
  6. Web site: Joan Chamorro/Andrea Motis: Feeling Good review – a jazz celeb is born . en . John . Fordham . September 25, 2014 . The Guardian . May 3, 2023 . Motis has the kind of pearly, barely exhaled voice, paced with canny improv swerves and casual timing, from which jazz celebs are made. .
  7. Web site: James . Reed . Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club says adiós, y gracias . Boston Globe . November 3, 2015 . en . April 28, 2023 . Portuondo returned for an encore of Dos Gardenias, paired with the young Spanish jazz singer and trumpeter Andrea Motis, who opened the show in a sublime trio setting. .
  8. Web site: Nate . Chinen . Review: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Bids Adiós, With Notes of Loss . New York Times . November 5, 2015 . en . April 28, 2023 . For an encore, she (Ms. Portuondo) sang Dos Gardenias, a bolero famously sung by Mr. Ferrer. She has her own history with the song, and shared it here with the young Spanish jazz singer Andrea Motis, the concert’s opening act. .
  9. Web site: Pearson . Chris . Jazz: Andrea Motis: Emotional Dance . The Times UK . June 17, 2017 . February 24, 2017.
  10. Web site: The Bach Project - Barcelona, 24.-25. September 2019 . en . bach.yo-yoma.com . May 3, 2023 . Yo-Yo Ma began the day in a public performance with jazz singer and trumpet player Andrea Motis. .
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI6HSIVYP54&pp=ygUVeW8teW8gbWEgYW5kcmVhIG1vdGlz El cant dels ocells, Duet Yo-Yo Ma (Cello) with Andrea Motis (voc, tp)
  12. https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/potpourri/31352-notes-for-the-future-yo-yo-ma Yo-Yo Ma: Notes For The Future
  13. Web site: April 12, 2023 . November 12, 2021 . Mosaik Music Promotion. Andrea Motis & WDR Big Band: Colors & Shadows .
  14. Web site: April 14, 2023 . Stefan Michalzik . July 26, 2022 . de . Nichts für die Jazzpolizei . Frankfurter Rundschau.
  15. Web site: Andrea . Motis . Aquí con nuestro bebé, ya en casa . October 7, 2020 . Facebook . ca . April 14, 2023 .

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