"I Didn't Tell Them Why" by Andrea Motis Quintet, Reaction/Analysis by Musician/Producer

[@eloycarboros53]

On Joan Chamorro's channel there are approximately a thousand (yes, 1,000) videos, with which you will discover the impressive work that this man does with his jazz big band made up of children between 6 and 21 years old, playing side-to-side with professionals of the caliber of Scott Hamilton, Jesse Davis, Wycliffe Gordon, Scott Robinson, Joel Frahm, Dick Oats..., just to name a few. That orchestra is the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, from Barcelona.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

It's unbelievable what he's accomplished, and how many GREAT players he's developed and showcased.

[@tenpiualto]

There are some remarkable talents among his students, and it's wonderful over the course of several years each spends with the SAJB to see in the videos the progress these kids make as musicians, as well as the broad stylistic range of the music they play.

[@greghemlock6679]

I agree with you one hundred percent

[@paulmasonsjazz9611]

Andrea Motis also composed this song....

[@pepevisedo7304]

Andrea is one of the figures of Spanish jazz who has emerged from the school of Joe Chamorro (who plays the double bass in this video) in Barcelona. A large number of very young jazz players (many from 8 or 9 years old) have populated a new scene of the genre. As for the pianist, Ignassi Terraza, he is the best of the pianists we have, if you asked me my opinion. Thanks Jeff

[@fliprim]

Iggy is pianistic genius. Very varied in style, inventive and often risky, like all real genii. Joan Chamorro is the Dumbledor of this Jazz finishing school, but Iggy has shown his pupils some of the greatest magic. The loss of Catalonian pianistic giant Tete Montoliu, has, at last, perhaps, found a replacement of even greater ability.

[@greghemlock6679]

I text Andrea at least a couple times a week.She is an amazing person.shes a muse! Very, approachable I love her❤

[@StrateleStudios]

Tell her I said “hi”! 😅😄🫶

[@vincenzonocera1039]

I follow SAJB by long Time . Joan Chamorro is a very great teacher !! Andrea is one of his best discoveries !! I heard her and the band in Barcelona before covid and they leaved me a wonderful memory !

[@markgalliher5707]

Awesome. The real deal. So refreshing to see and hear such pros work.

[@StrateleStudios]

Yes!

[@docnick55]

Loved your reactions! Hope you take a deep dive into their work. Andrea is the icing on the cake but there are so many fabulous jazz musicians from this group (lead by Joan C), you can easily spend hundreds of hours listening and you will be more amazed with each video! I bet you are already hooked!

[@greghemlock6679]

It's a rabbit hole i entered long ago. All of the students but there are 8 girls in particular.

[@paanikki]

Andrea Motis is a Catalan jazz musician, born in Barcelona, Spain 1995. She plays trumpet and saxophone and sings mostly in English, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish and French. The blind pianist is Ignasi Terraza, one of the best jazz pianists in Europe. Drummer Esteve Pi is also phenomenal. The Bassist, Joan Chamorro is originally Andrea's saxophone and Big Band teacher. He runs the youth Big Band "Sant Andreu Jazz Band" in Barcelona, which consists of 7 to 20+ year olds. That is where Andrea and her friends Grew up. This song is fom her first solo album "Emotional Dance" (2017), the first one with only her own compositions. She had been doing live performances and recorded mostly jazz and latin standards from age of 12.

[@paulmasonsjazz9611]

For those seeking more information both Joan Chamorro and Andrea Motis have their own websites, very easy to find.

[@davidlevine1697]

YES! have her in my phone and listen to her all the time. i particularly like her phrasing and accent.

[@lawrencevandenberg7725]

Very, very cool...my love, Andrea, and her fab back-up...(!) Yo, Phil!

[@kathleenr9109]

Love watching people discover Andrea and Joan.

[@richardtodd7295]

Jazz is alive and well! Once You tube saw that i was watching this wonderful Quintet, it offered me 3 more. Thank you Phil for the request. Outstanding!

[@fliprim]

Joan Chamorro has rescued Jazz giving now, possibly, hundreds of kids the profound experience of performing with Jazz greats in front of audiences large and small, captured on countless very high quality YT videos and funded by Patreon and CD sales.. The Sant Andreu Jazz Band, with Andrea, one of the first through the process has a great global career now and those following on behind (check trombonist/singer/composer Rita Payes, trumpeter/singer/composer Alba Armengou) making wide ranging careers in jazz, folk and pop also. Try Andrea Motis Moody's Mood 2013, Alba Armengou Triste 2016, Rita Payes Joel Frahm, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me. Then try Rita's "Nunca Vas a Comprender" to see how careers are founded from these experiences.

[@dbcanada]

Thanks, Jeff. Excellent band; they really swing!

[@alanlevin167]

As you've heard in all of these comments, this band and it's members are well known world wide but maybe no so much in the USA. There are over 1,000 KZbin videos as you have heard. Here are a few of the more notable ones, IMHO: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5OvhXp-h8qGbqMsi=73a3Y0LYUUkr4BWg is a rehearsal video from 2010. This is the first video I saw of the Sant Andreu Band. I thought: If he can get this out of young kids (trumpet soloist was 9!) what can he do with older people? The answer was obvious at their concert at the Palau de Music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIbIgH9ujNWMd9ksi=6CXuce4YVczZNjnP shows Elsa (age 7) with some big jazz cats--I mean big. Andrea is in there too. This next is from Andrea's first big gig at the Jamboree club: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGjXkmRtpKepaNksi=nf9aCEpEW5bFSrYo Ignazi answers the question: What would it sound like if J.S. Bach collaborated with George Shearing--in Ab of course? This next series is form the "Joan Chamorro Presenta's Big band': kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn2XiqqunN-KnpYsi=_2ziWYDP5XSDANRm . If you listen to all the cuts you will meet 12 great players of what ever instrument they play. Then you can search them out on the web...............it may never stop!

[@ClaudioRCFaria]

Now that you've heard Andrea's voice and trumpet, you must watch her on sax: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aH28eoGGdtaNpJI This was 8 years earlier than the other concert. Not your average 16-year-old musician, is she?

[@Soohook]

Amazing band!!!!!!!!!! Love them!!!!

[@lisedonsgrnning6518]

She is amazing!!😃🤩🥰 Loved both her singing And playing🥰. And that swing!🫠😅 They are all sooo good👌🏼✨. Thank you, Phil and Jeff - I’ll def. check more out😃👍🏼🤗💚🌱.

[@carlosgaspar8447]

their lullaby of birdland is what takes your breath away.

[@greghemlock6679]

Oh my yes

[@LittleWolf194]

I have an amazing trio from Italy Rosa Bittolo & Nossa Alma Canta. This singer and band will blow you away :)

[@sagebooker]

Beautiful trumpet, I'm in !

[@alainmoussat9684]

Bienvenue dans le monde d'Andrea, de Joan Chamorro et aussi du Sant Andreu Jazz Band !

[@TheRealDrJoey]

Joan Chamorro also has MANY great numbers collaborating with Scott Hamilton--(tenor player, not the drummer--both GREAT) They are Catalonian. There are a few far out videos of Andrea as a little girl, three and a half feet tall, standing in a horn section line up and holding her own, and then some, next to a couple of huge veterans. Joan has developed SO MUCH truly fabulous talented young musicians---The man is a priceless international treasure. And his arrangements swing so hard, and his ensembles are SO tight...I envy you that you have so much wondrous stuff to check out. Here's one from Joan that I go back and listen to a lot---BTW, the backup singer on the far stage right, Rita Payes, is an outstanding trombonist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpqtnXR7Z9iZh8U

[@alanlevin167]

The little girl in the videos was NOT Andrea but was Elsa Armengou, 6 years old at the time. 'Less than 2 trumpets high' to paraphrase Terrell Stafford, who should know. I believe you are referring to this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIbIgH9ujNWMd9ksi=31apaaLKlIxbxm0V Andrea has a part in the middle but she was 16 at that time.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

@@alanlevin167 You are correct! It was one of the first of Joan's I saw, and I guess upon seeing many later with Andrea I assumed that was her.

[@philipwhiteman6134]

check out joan chamorro his use of young spanish musical talent is massive

[@fliprim]

Just one further comment on Andrea's stable mate Rita Payes whose new album De Camino al Camino, has just dropped. It is astonishing in variety and accomplishment. Jazz, flamenco, folk, classical pieces all from her pen with a great array of guests, feature in the eclectic mix. Numerous headline numbers will find wild success in their sectors but "Tantas Cosas" a classical song with astringent string quartet is shockingly good.

[@LittleWolf194]

Got some more stuff for you of a similar vein :) Joan Chammorro Grup; '2016 Just A Closer Walk With Thee' featuring Magali Datzira on vocal, Joan, Luigi Grasso on Sax (Dixieland Jazz), 2014 'On A Sentimental Side' Magali Datzira & Joan Chamorro Quartet. 'Aguarela De Brasil' Anina Nova Bossa Nova Jazz Napoli Italy 2014. Astrud Gilberto 'Corcovado'. Baila Nova 'Garota De Impanema'. Stuff that you don't hear very often:)

[@martinbreslow1401]

This tune appeared on Andrea's First album "Emotional Dance" on Impulse Records in 2017. This album is out-of-print on Impulse but available on the label Blue Sounds. In 2021 the tune came out on an album of the WDR Big Band "Colors & Shadows" and a single under the song title. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoHMmqaZjJaKq8ksi=362MuP2Q-CeMw6Nh

[@alanlevin167]

Not her first album. 'Joan Chamorro presenta Andrea Motis' is probably first, though it might be technically listed as a Joan Chamorro album.

[@billdCT97]

Some great music by her group. Check out more!!

[@LittleWolf194]

Do yourself a favor and check out the Joan Chamorro Grup, they are awesome and the keepers of Classic Jazz :)

[@toreg.nyhammer6328]

And she also play saxofone

[@paulkossak7761]

I heard the piano player is blind

[@eloycarboros53]

Indeed, Ignasi Terraza became blind at the age of ten. Apart from being a world-class pianist, he is a computer engineer.