Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:57
Size: 151,7 MB
Art: Front
(3:58) 1. Blowin' in the Wind
(3:59) 2. Just Squeeze Me
(4:13) 3. Old Country
(4:11) 4. Sweet As Bear Meat
(2:26) 5. I'm Walking
(6:02) 6. The Very Thought Of You
(3:17) 7. Gravy Waltz
(5:02) 8. Alagoas
(4:03) 9. Walkin' Shoes
(3:28) 10. Sweet Baby James
(3:05) 11. I Gotta Get Drunk
(4:20) 12. Birdsong
(5:06) 13. My Romance
(5:02) 14. Makin' Whoopee
(5:38) 15. Jump for Joy
I listen to Birdsong, lyrics and music by Joana Casanova. I do it as I write these words and I do it really excited and happy, for various reasons. I met Joana Casanova when she was 14 years old, who began to be my sax student. After a couple of years I suggested that she join my Sant Andreu Jazz Band project, knowing that it would be a great motivation for her and that as a vocalist and saxophonist she would enrich the sound of the band, as it has been. Joana is the proof that, with perseverance, with work, with faith and with love, you can achieve what you set out to do. It always seemed to me that Joana had a musicality and potential that, working well, could bear beautiful fruits. Joana is a person with a good heart, sincere, committed to nature, to animals. Her vegan status goes even further than my vegetarian status, and somehow makes me feel sympathy and admiration for her commitment and consistency. All this is reflected in his music, unpretentious, without unnecessary frills, but authentic, and with force, both with his saxophones (the alto in the vein of the classics like Johnny Hodges and the tenor, in the vein of Genne Ammos and Ben Wester) as with his voice, with morea strong personality, impregnated with soul, with a lot of swing, many nuances, inspired by the greats Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchel ...
We can hear all this in this presentation album, and for several reasons It makes me feel excited and happy:
1- In it we can find several of Joana's companions, from the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, all of them turned into very good jazz musicians.
2- The rhythmic base is completed by three wonderful musicians such as Joan Monné (piano and arranger of most of the songs), David Xirgu (drums) and Josep Traver (guitar).
3- We have, in most of the songs, the presence of one of the most personal trumpeters on the world jazz scene of the moment, Joe Magnarelli, whose musicality flows, how could it be otherwise, in the eclectic repertoire that we can find in this job.
4 -There are also Dick Oatts and Scott Hamilton, honey for the ears.
5- And finally, and beyond all, I think that this new volume (the 13th) of the series "Joan Chamorro presents", is a beautiful, varied album, careful in all its details and that leaves a record of a voice that he envelops us and captures us with his special warmth, just like his saxophones. Because Joana, when she plays, she sings and when she sings, she plays.
Joana is pure melody. My best wishes!! Joan Chamorro
We can hear all this in this presentation album, and for several reasons It makes me feel excited and happy:
1- In it we can find several of Joana's companions, from the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, all of them turned into very good jazz musicians.
2- The rhythmic base is completed by three wonderful musicians such as Joan Monné (piano and arranger of most of the songs), David Xirgu (drums) and Josep Traver (guitar).
3- We have, in most of the songs, the presence of one of the most personal trumpeters on the world jazz scene of the moment, Joe Magnarelli, whose musicality flows, how could it be otherwise, in the eclectic repertoire that we can find in this job.
4 -There are also Dick Oatts and Scott Hamilton, honey for the ears.
5- And finally, and beyond all, I think that this new volume (the 13th) of the series "Joan Chamorro presents", is a beautiful, varied album, careful in all its details and that leaves a record of a voice that he envelops us and captures us with his special warmth, just like his saxophones. Because Joana, when she plays, she sings and when she sings, she plays.
Joana is pure melody. My best wishes!! Joan Chamorro
Joan Chamorro presenta Joana Casanova