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Friday, December 13, 2024

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 14 Vol.2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2024
Time: 48:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 111,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:09) 1. I Never Knew
(3:39) 2. When You're Smiling
(4:26) 3. The Nearness Of You
(2:33) 4. Chinatown My Chinatown
(2:12) 5. Jazz Me Blues
(4:12) 6. Manhã De Carnaval
(3:29) 7. Rosetta
(6:32) 8. Time After Time
(4:01) 9. Just a Closer Walk with Thee
(3:18) 10. Teach Me Tonight
(7:26) 11. Prince Albert
(4:56) 12. Royal Garden Blues

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 18 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in Spain.

The band was founded in 2006 at Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. The band has performed at numerous concerts and festivals in Catalonia and neighbouring countries. They released their first live CD/DVD Jazzing: Live at Casa Fuster in 2009, featuring alongside established jazz musicians, the precocious 14-year-old, Andrea Motis among other young talents.

2010 was a breakthrough year for the band, with appearances on more than 20 festivals including Valls, Terrassa, Girona, Barcelona, Platja d'Aro, and legendary venues like el Jamboree, Palau de la Música Catalana, JazzSi, Hotel Casa Fuster, featuring international performers like Dick Oatts, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Gordon, Perico Sambeat, Ignasi Terraza, Matthew Simon, and Esteve Pi. The band also released their second recording Jazzing, Vol. 2

In 2012 the film director Ramón Tort made the documentary A film about kids and music based on the band's work and efforts. The film was awarded best feature film at the Lights, Camera, Help Festival in Austin, Texas, in 2013. https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/13058-sant-andreu-jazz-band-albums

Jazzing 14 Vol.2

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 14 Vol.1

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2024
Time: 66:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 151,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:16) 1. Top Hat, White Tie & Tails
(4:37) 2. Bewitched
(3:12) 3. Four Brothers
(5:40) 4. For All We Know
(4:26) 5. Sway
(6:06) 6. Ceora
(3:23) 7. I Cried For You
(4:14) 8. My One And Only Love
(6:54) 9. Quiza´s, Quiza´s, Quiza´s.mp3
(4:00) 10. The Nearness Of You
(5:32) 11. Lady Be Good
(7:12) 12. After Supper
(4:30) 13. Fantail
(5:12) 14. Curacao Doloroso
(5:53) 15. Cherokee

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 18 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in Spain.

The band was founded in 2006 at Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. The band has performed at numerous concerts and festivals in Catalonia and neighbouring countries. They released their first live CD/DVD Jazzing: Live at Casa Fuster in 2009, featuring alongside established jazz musicians, the precocious 14-year-old, Andrea Motis among other young talents.

2010 was a breakthrough year for the band, with appearances on more than 20 festivals including Valls, Terrassa, Girona, Barcelona, Platja d'Aro, and legendary venues like el Jamboree, Palau de la Música Catalana, JazzSi, Hotel Casa Fuster, featuring international performers like Dick Oatts, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Gordon, Perico Sambeat, Ignasi Terraza, Matthew Simon, and Esteve Pi. The band also released their second recording Jazzing, Vol. 2

In 2012 the film director Ramón Tort made the documentary A film about kids and music based on the band's work and efforts.The film was awarded best feature film at the Lights, Camera, Help Festival in Austin, Texas, in 2013
https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/13058-sant-andreu-jazz-band-albums

Jazzing 14 Vol.1

Friday, October 4, 2024

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil (Live) Disc 1 And Disc 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
Time: 60:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 140,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:40) 1. Esmeraldas (Live)
(5:28) 2. Açaí (Live)
(4:57) 3. É Com Esse Que Eu Vou (Live)
(4:48) 4. Dindi (Live)
(4:37) 5. Palhaçada (Live)
(4:05) 6. Frevo (Live)
(4:47) 7. Vivo Sonhando (Live)
(4:56) 8. Maria das Mercedes (Live)
(5:54) 9. Deusa do Amor (Live)
(3:51) 10. Você já Foi à Bahia? (Live)
(4:17) 11. Estate (Live)
(3:56) 12. Brazil (Live)
(3:09) 13. Feitiço da Vila (Live)

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil (Live) Disc 2
Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
Time: 51:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 119,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:20) 1. Samba da Minha Terra (Live)
(3:32) 2. Onde Anda Você (Live)
(4:42) 3. Morena Boca de Ouro (Live)
(5:32) 4. É Luxo Só (Live)
(3:19) 5. Samba de Verão (Live)
(3:34) 6. Dunas (Live)
(4:16) 7. Vestido de Bolero (Live)
(5:24) 8. Curacao Doloroso (Live)
(3:40) 9. Tico Tico (Live)
(4:15) 10. Corcovado (Live)
(4:23) 11. Chega de Saudade (Live)
(5:20) 12. Bossa Nueva (Live)

It is the result of many years of loving the music of this marvellous country. In the context of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band we have performed and recorded more than 50 songs by authors such as Tom Jobim, Djavan, Pixinguinha, Ary Barroso, Joao Gilberto, Chico Buarque, Roberto Menescal, Dorival Caymmi, Dona Ivone Lara...

Voices such as Andrea Motis, Rita Payés, Èlia Bastida, Alba Armengou and Koldo Munné have been inspired by great Brazilian performers and, through them, have managed to have their own voice in interpreting this rich, melodic, harmonic and rhythmic music. Our interpretations always leave room for improvisation, taking advantage of the fact that jazz music is our greatest source of inspiration.

SANT ANDREU ABRAÇA BRAZIL is not only music, it is also a gesture, a way of bridging the gap between both cultures. To give a giant embrace that crosses the ocean.

This is what happened during the Jazzing Festival, where the 25 songs that make up this double CD were recorded live, featuring the voices of Vanessa Moreno and Analu Sampaio, who came from Brazil especially to sing with us, as well as voices from the Sant Andreu Jazz Band such as Andrea Motis, Rita Payés, Èlia Bastida, Alba Armengou, Koldo Munné and Edu Ferrer. We can also enjoy the voices of guests such as Carme Canela, Jurandir dã Silva, Enrique González and Maria Zerpa.

The diversity of the voices that make up this CD make it unique. 25 songs to enjoy listening to Music invites us to dream. Let's close our eyes and cross the Atlantic. Let's let ourselves be carried away by the bossa nova, the samba, the baião, the choro, the frevo.
https://discmedi.com/en/disco_new/14937/sant-andreu-abraa-brasil

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil (Live) Disc 1, Disc 2

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil Vol. 2 (Live)

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2024
Time: 46:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 108,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:41) 1. Choro das Aguas (Live)
(4:07) 2. Só Tinha de Ser com Você (Live)
(5:08) 3. Senhorinha (Live)
(2:55) 4. Na Carreira (Live)
(4:05) 5. Maçã do Rosto (Live)
(3:37) 6. Valsinha (Live)
(4:36) 7. Azul (Live)
(4:02) 8. Fato Consumado (Live)
(5:17) 9. Dindi (Live)
(4:02) 10. Por Causa de Você (Live)
(5:05) 11. Tudo é Ilusão (Live)

Joan Chamorro (1962) studied saxophone in the Barcelona Conservatory under the mentorship of profesor Adolf Ventas. Parallel to his cassical studies he got a superior grade at the Barcelona’s Taller de Músics. Took part of the Big Band del Taller de músics, the Big Band de Bellaterra, John Dubuclet’s Big Band, the Big Band Jazz Terrassa, and Eladio Reinón-Tete Montoliu’s Supercombo, touring Europe at different venues and festivals, and appearing in the most renowned Spanish jazz festivals (Barcelona, Terrassa, Sant Sebastiàn, Madrid...). Chamorro has been also part of the Orquestra de Radio Televisión Española, where he had the opportunity to back big names in the scene as Manhattan Transfer and Stevie Wonder.

Apart from these early projects, Chamorro has worked as part of the Orquestra del Teatre Lliure, and the well-known theatre group the Comediants, having shows in great venues as New York, Santiago de Xile, Paris, and Venice.

Chamorro has played with such jazz legends like Slide Hampton, Tete Montoliu, Frank Foster, Teddy Edwards, Frank Wess, Bebo Valdés, Randy Brecker, Gary Smulyan, Dick Oatts, Ralf Lalama, Jessie Davis, Dennis Rowland, Carmen Lundy, Mike Mossman, John Mosca, Bart Van Lier, David Allen, Bobby Shew, Judy Niemack, along with important local names like Josep Maria Farràs, Perico Sambeat, Lluis Vidal, David Mengual, David Xirgu and many more.

Multiinstrumentalist (he’s able to play all different kind of reeds and upright bass); nowadays he’s popularly known as the founder and director of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, and specially to lead the internationally acclaimed Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quintet.
https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/12863-joan-chamorro-albums

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil Vol. 2 (Live)

Monday, January 8, 2024

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 13 Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: Jazzing 13 Disc 1
Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:14
Size: 107,1 MB
Art: Front

(1:56) 1. Easy To Love
(5:57) 2. Sweet Georgia Brown
(7:25) 3. Midnight Blue
(4:25) 4. In A Mellow Tone
(3:11) 5. Prelude To A Kiss
(5:06) 6. Recordame
(2:57) 7. You Make Me Feel So Young
(5:07) 8. Laverne Walk
(3:46) 9. When Sunny Gets Blue
(2:44) 10. People We Say We're In Love
(3:35) 11. Go To Hell

Album: Jazzing 13 Disc 2
Time: 52:19
Size: 121,1 MB

(3:37) 1. A Tisket A Tasket
(4:20) 2. Blue Moon (2:21) 3. It's A Lovely Day Today
(4:22) 4. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
(4:24) 5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
(4:25) 6. Sunny
(4:43) 7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(3:48) 8. The Last Time I Saw Paris
(4:25) 9. I Wish I Knew How It Would To Be Free
(4:57) 10. Just A Closer with Thee
(5:42) 11. Corner Pocket
(5:09) 12. Tain't What You Do

Jazzing 13

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 11 Vol. 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:57
Size: 148,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:50) 1. That Da Da Strain
(4:40) 2. Line For Lyons
(4:27) 3. Nature Boy
(5:46) 4. If I Only Had a Brain
(3:40) 5. Outra Vez
(4:21) 6. Misty
(2:31) 7. Yardvird Suite
(4:38) 8. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(4:10) 9. Saudade de Itapuã
(3:55) 10. Vierd Blues
(3:14) 11. Honeysuckle Rose
(4:07) 12. Mean to Me
(6:17) 13. Evil Eye
(3:33) 14. People will say we're in love
(4:40) 15. Last Train from Overbrook

And we have reached 15 years of existence. Some of the musicians who are part of this new Jazzing were not even born when the project, with more than 60 musicians between the ages of 6 and 21 years old, was started. None of the musicians who were part of the first recording, Jazzing 1 of 2009, is part of the current Sant Andreu Jazz Band (although in this new work, representation of the year 2020, we can find two musicians who were present that year: the Motis sisters, who in this case appear as special guests).

All these years are reflected on the one hand in 21 cd's (11 jazzings, some of them with several volumes) as well as in the 18 Joan Chamorro presents and in Ramon Tort's film A film about kids and music, from 2011.

In the text of Jazzing 1 I spoke of a dream come true. What can I say now, a few years later? That this dream is still alive. That there is still, on my part, if not more, the same illusion as in the beginning. That young people are leaving, but the orchestra remains and continues to be a motivation and a source of learning and inspiration for those who are entering and also for many other musicians who, seeing our work, are motivated and work in the same line as we do.

I can only say thank you, once again, for having the opportunity to live this dream, and to share it with so many people around the world. Thousands of fans know the names of each and every one of the members who are or have been in the orchestra and, once they leave, follow their individual careers. Those followers know our extensive repertoire, they have all our records, they know the different versions of the songs, they know the details, the ins and outs. They are followers of our history, a history that after 15 years has become the history of thousands of people.

The Sant Andreu Jazz Band, a dream come true and based on the fact that what is really important is the present, the path, and not the goal.

Jazzing 11 Vol. 2

Monday, July 17, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 11 vol.1

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:14
Size: 184,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:11) 1. Don't Forget This Life Is For You
(4:37) 2. Don't Explaint
(6:01) 3. Construçao
(4:29) 4. Lil Darlin
(4:20) 5. Teardrops From My Eyes
(4:40) 6. Smoke In Your Eyes
(4:38) 7. Let's Call It Love
(4:21) 8. I Only Have Eyes for You
(4:55) 9. You don't know what love is
(4:53) 10. Moten Swing
(5:02) 11. Blame It on My Youth
(5:20) 12. You and the Night and the Music
(5:45) 13. Blues does always win
(5:25) 14. Embraceable You
(4:38) 15. Afrodisia
(4:53) 16. Don't Play That Song

And we have reached 15 years of existence. Some of the musicians who are part of this new Jazzing were not even born when the project, with more than 60 musicians between the ages of 6 and 21 years old, was started. None of the musicians who were part of the first recording, Jazzing 1 of 2009, is part of the current Sant Andreu Jazz Band (although in this new work, representation of the year 2020, we can find two musicians who were present that year: the Motis sisters, who in this case appear as special guests).

All these years are reflected on the one hand in 21 cd's (11 jazzings, some of them with several volumes) as well as in the 18 Joan Chamorro presents and in Ramon Tort's film A film about kids and music, from 2011.

In the text of Jazzing 1 I spoke of a dream come true. What can I say now, a few years later? That this dream is still alive. That there is still, on my part, if not more, the same illusion as in the beginning. That young people are leaving, but the orchestra remains and continues to be a motivation and a source of learning and inspiration for those who are entering and also for many other musicians who, seeing our work, are motivated and work in the same line as we do. I can only say thank you, once again, for having the opportunity to live this dream, and to share it with so many people around the world. Thousands of fans know the names of each and every one of the members who are or have been in the orchestra and, once they leave, follow their individual careers.

Those followers know our extensive repertoire, they have all our records, they know the different versions of the songs, they know the details, the ins and outs. They are followers of our history, a history that after 15 years has become the history of thousands of people. The Sant Andreu Jazz Band, a dream come true and based on the fact that what is really important is the present, the path, and not the goal.

Jazzing 11 vol.1

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 10 Vol. 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:15
Size: 166,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:53) 1. Foolin' Myself
(4:59) 2. Anthropology
(4:52) 3. em Fantasia
(2:42) 4. Sugar Foot
(6:34) 5. Cheesecake
(3:05) 6. Suze Blues
(4:27) 7. In My Life
(4:51) 8. Dexterity
(3:28) 9. I’m Beginning To See The Light
(3:22) 10. Jazz Warner
(5:28) 11. Uma estrela
(4:58) 12. Unforgetable
(3:40) 13. An Occasional Man
(3:01) 14. Diz que fui por aí
(3:47) 15. Donna Lee

Jazzing 10 Vol. 2

Monday, July 10, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 10 Vol.3

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:31
Size: 149,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:19) 1. Gracy Waltz
(3:25) 2. De Conversa Em Conversa
(4:07) 3. Walkin' Shoes
(2:38) 4. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
(5:05) 5. Joao e Maria
(4:20) 6. Day Dream
(4:29) 7. Catalonian Nights
(4:27) 8. Aguas de Marco
(3:21) 9. Sophisticated Lady
(3:29) 10. Happy Talk
(5:11) 11. Sonho Meu
(5:41) 12. Star Eyes
(5:14) 13. Uma Estrela
(2:45) 14. Prom to Prom
(4:53) 15. Foolin' Myself

Jazzing 10 Vol.3

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 9 Vol.3

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:42
Size: 166,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:12) 1. Nobody Else But Me
(5:01) 2. Portrait of Jenny
(4:25) 3. Louisiana Fayry Tale
(3:35) 4. Dizzy Atmosphere
(6:39) 5. Insensatez
(5:45) 6. Peggy's Blue Skylight
(4:14) 7. Crescendo Date
(3:05) 8. The Preacher
(5:39) 9. Billie’s Bounce
(5:14) 10. Round About Midnight
(2:59) 11. Cute
(3:07) 12. Deeper
(3:59) 13. What's New
(5:38) 14. I Could Write a Book
(7:03) 15. Rejoice

We are celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, through which around 60 musicians (currently 24) have passed, with this new jazzing, the ninth, in three volumes. Jazzing 9 (vol.3) (Temps Record, 2020).

At the same time we continue with the Joan Chamorro presents series, of which we have just published the 11th by Alba Armengou and the 12th by Carla Motis, and of which we are currently recording for the following ones, by Jan Domenech and Joana Casanova, and we already have others in mind.

I never imagined that we would be here, but here we are, with more enthusiasm than ever, with more happiness than ever, seeing how our way of working, our methodology and our philosophy is admired and required from all parts of the world.

Something as simple as falling in love with music through listening to it, feeling like musicians from the first moment, giving us the opportunity to enjoy from the first day, singing melodies that are inside us and incorporating new ones based on listening to the greats like Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, and a long etcetera.

Jazz is universal and has no frontiers, no ages, nor is it one for a few. Jazz belongs to everyone, it's popular, and if young people are given the opportunity to get to know it and are told "You can also play and enjoy", the rest will come. To improvise is to create, it is to feel that you can develop your own voice, and nowadays that has an incalculable value, in a society that tends to the unification of ideas and thoughts.

The members of the SAJB are unique individuals, as we all are, and that is important when facing education.Thank you, Nicolás, once again, for teaching me so much in such a short time.
https://discmedi.com/en/disco_new/10733/sant-andreu-jazz-band/jazzing-9---vol.-3

Jazzing 9 Vol.3

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Joan Chamorro - Jazzing 9 Vol.2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:11
Size: 169,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:13) 1. Deeper
(4:26) 2. Meditacao
(5:11) 3. Yearnin’
(7:34) 4. Stardust Shine
(6:30) 5. I'll Be Seeing You
(7:32) 6. Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
(3:47) 7. Star Eyes
(5:15) 8. Doodlin'
(5:15) 9. Memories of You
(4:22) 10. As Long as I Live
(5:14) 11. Tricotism
(6:21) 12. Four
(4:30) 13. Doralice
(2:53) 14. Can't You Just See Me

Jazzing 9 Vol.2

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Joan Chamorro - Jazzing 10 Vol.1

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:26
Size: 162,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:49) 1. Jim
(6:17) 2. Jordu
(5:49) 3. Laura
(5:45) 4. He's My Guy
(5:19) 5. Lands End
(5:57) 6. You Go to My Head
(7:05) 7. Brown Skins
(5:46) 8. Falling in Love with Love
(4:47) 9. Hymn of the Orient
(4:42) 10. I Remember Clifford
(4:00) 11. Daahoud
(4:50) 12. Can't Help Lovin Dat Man
(5:14) 13. Split Kick

I don't know to what extent the number 10 is significant, but it is a round number and reaching this number of Jazzings (CDs of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band) for me is, at least, a great joy.

JAZZING 10, but 18 CDs, actually, since several of them are double or triple, as is the case of this last one, which consists of three volumes. The first of them (VOL. 1), dedicated to the music of Clifford Brown, with special arrangements for the occasion, of songs that were either originals by Clifford himself or songs that he used to perform.

The other two volumes (VOL. 2 and 3) are also a sample of the different recordings we have made during this 2019, both with the entire Sant Andreu Jazz Band, or in smaller formats, and in two different spaces such as the JAZZ HOUSE (home of the young orchestra) and the JAMBOREE, a regular venue during all these years, where we have also played and recorded on many occasions.

Musicians:

Koldo Munné, Nil Galgo, Alba Esteban, Marçal Perramón, Joan Marti, Joana Casanova, Èlia Bastida, Shanti Ming (Saxophones)

Elsa Armengou, Víctor Carrascosa, Alba Armengou, Joan M. Sauqué, Max Munné, Noa Galgo, Martha Vives, Gerard Peñaranda (Trumpets)

Arnau Sanchez, Joan Codina, Max Tato, Claudia Rostey, Hugo Vlach, Luc Martin, Anastasia Ivanova (Trombones)

Ton Felices, Miquel Casanova (Bass), Pablo Ruiz (drums)

Carla Motis (guitar)

Jan Domenech, Simón Palazi (Piano)

Andrea Motis, Joana Casanova, Èlia Bastida and Alba Armengou (Vocal)

Scott Hamilton, Dick Oatts, Andrea Motis, Joe Magnarelli, Fredrik Norén, Victor Carrascosa, Joan Marti, Jan Domenech, Elsa Armengou, Joan Codina, Ton Felices, Joan Mar Sauqué, Joan Chamorro, Èlia Bastida, Marçal Perramon, Martha You live, Alba Armengou, Carla Motis and Pablo Ruiz (Solos)

Jazzing 10 Vol.1

Friday, May 26, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 8 Vol.3

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:28
Size: 182,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:08) 1. Groove Marchant
(4:01) 2. I Let a Song Go out My Heart
(4:29) 3. Cool Blues
(4:27) 4. Grey Flannel
(3:59) 5. My Blue Heaven
(4:04) 6. Joy Spring
(2:38) 7. Prity Trix
(4:21) 8. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(5:50) 9. Three and One
(3:24) 10. Black and Tan Fantasy
(3:01) 11. Minor Swing
(3:57) 12. Easy Living
(4:18) 13. Whisper Not
(4:57) 14. Spaceman Twist
(3:12) 15. Tishomingo Blues
(3:34) 16. Baby, You've Got What It Takes
(5:45) 17. Poor Butterfly
(7:14) 18. Moanin

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 21 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in Spain.

Jazzing 8 Vol.3

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band, Joan Chamorro - Jazzing 8 Vol. 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:54
Size: 177,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:50) 1. Portrait of Louis Amstrong
(4:41) 2. Mood Indigo
(5:40) 3. I've Never Been In Love Before
(3:55) 4. Que Reste Till De Nos Amours
(5:11) 5. After You've Gone
(5:12) 6. Vivo Sonhando
(4:15) 7. Bunny
(4:30) 8. One More Once
(4:53) 9. Egyptian Fantasy
(5:24) 10. Lover Come Back To Me
(2:37) 11. If I Had You
(4:49) 12. Jazz Goes to Siwash
(4:49) 13. Embraceable You
(4:00) 14. Theme from Picnic
(5:32) 15. Nap's Dream
(8:27) 16. Blues Generation

Jazzing 8 Vol. 2

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 12 Vol 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 94:19
Size: 217,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:48) 1. Easy Money
(5:12) 2. Wave
(6:24) 3. What's New
(4:55) 4. Baby, You've Got What It Takes
(2:56) 5. 'S Wonderlul
(8:08) 6. Recado Bossa Nova
(4:04) 7. Just You , Just Me
(5:12) 8. My One and Only Love
(5:08) 9. Stéphane
(2:46) 10. I Like Yo Hear It Sometimes
(3:36) 11. That's a Plenty
(6:25) 12. My Blue Heaven
(4:22) 13. Since You've Been Gone
(3:56) 14. Night and Day
(6:02) 15. From This Moment On
(4:41) 16. Feeling Good
(7:26) 17. Moanin'
(6:08) 18. Pyramid

A great party, yes, that is what the concert at the Palau de la Música was on December 10, 2021 as part of the Barcelona Jazz Festival. This concert is the one you have in your hands, on two CDs, because it was a musically generous concert, where we managed to bring together practically all the musicians who had gone through the project plus those who were part of it at that time.

In total, 64 musicians, plus regular guests: Ignasi Terraza, Josep Traver and Esteve Pi. It was really wonderful to be able to come together and make music again and recreate some of the most popular songs from all these years (plus 3 new songs that we had never recorded before). A jazz party in style, where it was exciting to hear the evolution of many of the musicians I hadn't heard for years. Many of them have their own projects and play an important role in the current jazz scene.

This recording is really very special, both emotionally and musically. In some of the songs we can practically hear two big bands playing at the same time, with two drummers, two bassists, two guitars, 10 saxophones, 6 or 7 trombones, 6 or 7 trumpets, choirs of more than 10 people, etc. It wasn't easy, but we made it possible. Because, as I already said back in 2009, in the first JAZZING: the Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a dream come true. And we are in 2022 (the year in which this 2021 recording appears) and we continue dreaming.
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Jazzing 12

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 12 vol 1

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 93:39
Size: 217,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:51) 1. Stardust
(5:06) 2. I Can’t Get Started
(4:27) 3. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
(5:18) 4. Willow Weep For Me
(3:03) 5. From This Moment On
(4:52) 6. All The Things You Are
(4:38) 7. Muskrat Ramble
(7:38) 8. Green Dolphin Street
(3:10) 9. It’s All Right With Me
(5:17) 10. Wave
(6:42) 11. Nobody Else But Me
(3:19) 12. Blue Skiesv (6:29) 13. Taking a Chance in Love
(3:58) 14. Georgia On My Mind
(2:59) 15. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
(5:32) 16. Na Baixa do Sapateiro
(5:08) 17. I’m Confessin'
(6:50) 18. Every Time We Say Goodbye
(4:12) 19. Lotus Blossom

Jazzing 12 vol 1

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Scott Hamilton - Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Scott Hamilton (Compilation)

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 158:25
Size: 364,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:49) 1. Jim
(5:36) 2. Shiny Stockings
(5:49) 3. Laura
(4:20) 4. September in the Rain
(4:23) 5. Eu sei que vou te amar
(5:54) 6. It's De-Lovely
(4:22) 7. As Long as I Live
(3:53) 8. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
(4:27) 9. Águas de Março
(5:46) 10. Falling in Love with Love
(6:40) 11. Insensatez
(5:15) 12. Nobody Else but Me
(4:09) 13. Vip's Boogie
(5:04) 14. Makin' Whoopee
(4:06) 15. My Baby Just Cares for Me
(6:59) 16. Meditaçao
(5:38) 17. I Could Write a Book
(5:30) 18. Everything Happens To
(6:41) 19. A Secret Love
(5:35) 20. China Boy
(3:57) 21. Georgia on My Mind
(4:22) 22. Ill Wind
(4:10) 23. Love You're Spell
(6:13) 24. Chelsea Bridge
(4:10) 25. Day Dream
(4:02) 26. A Kiss to Build a Dream
(5:03) 27. Minor Swing
(3:51) 28. When You're Smiling
(5:44) 29. Jump for Joy
(5:57) 30. You Go to My Head
(5:45) 31. He's My Guy

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a youth jazz band from Barcelona, featuring 7- to 20-year-olds. The bandleader is Joan Chamorro. The band was founded in 2006 at Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. The band has performed at numerous concerts and festivals in Catalonia, and other regions of Spain as well as in neighbouring countries. They released their first live CD/DVD Jazzing: Live at Casa Fuster in 2009, featuring alongside established jazz musicians, the precocious 14-year-old, Andrea Motis among other young talents.

2010 was a breakthrough year for the band, with appearances at more than 20 festivals including Valls, Terrassa, Girona, Barcelona, Platja d'Aro, and venues like el Jamboree, Palau de la Música Catalana, JazzSi, Hotel Casa Fuster, featuring international performers like Dick Oatts, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Gordon, Perico Sambeat, Ignasi Terraza, Matthew Simon, and Esteve Pi. The band also released their second recording Jazzing vol.2.

In 2012 the film director Ramón Tort made the documentary A film about kids and music based on the band's work and efforts. The film was awarded best feature film at the Lights. Camera. Help. festival in Austin, Texas, US in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Andreu_Jazz_Band

Musicians: SAXOS: Sander Theuns, Shanti Ming, Elian Sabogal, Koldo Munné, Lola Peñaranda, Alba Esteban

TROMPETES: Martí Costalago, Max Munné, Gerard Peñaranda, Elsa Armengou , Martha Vives, Alba Armengou

TROMBONS: Hugo Vlach, Luc Martín, Perot Rigau, Clàudia Rostey, Max Tato

BASE RÍTMICA: Anna Ndiaye (piano), Jordi Herrera (contrabaix), Nils Theuns (bateria)

Van formar part de la big band:Abril Saurí (bateria i veu), Andrea Motis (trompeta, saxo i veu),Arnau Julià (bateria), Arnau Sánchez (trombó), Carla Motis (guitarra), Carles Vázquez (saxo), Dani Téllez (trombó), Eduard Ferrer (saxo), Èlia Bastida (violí, saxo tenor i veu), Eva Fernández (saxo i veu), Eva Garín (trombó), Helena Pañart (saxo i veu), Irene Mata (saxo i flauta), Irene Reig (saxo), Iscle Datzira (saxo), Iván Cervantes (bateria), Jan Domènech (piano), Jan Rodríguez (contrabaix), Jaume Ferrer (saxo), Joan Aleix Mata (bateria), Joan Codina (trombó), Joan Mar Sauqué (trompeta), Joan Martí (saxos, flauta, clarinet i veu), Joana Casanova (saxo i veu), Magalí Datzira (contrabaix i veu), Marc Ferrer (piano), Marc Martín (piano), Marçal Perramon (saxo i clarinet), Martí Ibáñez (trompeta), Max Salgado (trompa), Max Vernet (trombó), Miquel Casanova (contrabaix), Miranda Fernández (piano i veu), Nil Galgo (saxo i clarinet)Noa Galgo (trompeta)Pablo Fernández (trompeta)Pablo Ruiz (bateria)Pau Galgo (contrabaix)Paula Berzal (trombó)Paula Esteban (trombó i veu)Raul Castro (trombó)Rita Payés (trombó i veu), Ruth Margüenda (trompeta i veu), Simon Palazzi (piano), Ton Felices (contrabaix), Víctor Carrascosa (trompeta).

Sant Andreu Jazz Band w/Scott Hamilton

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Sant Andreu Jazz Band/Joan Chamorro - Jazzing 7

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:42
Size: 183,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:14) 1. Almost Like Being in Love
(3:41) 2. Sunset Glow
(2:54) 3. Bli Blip
(6:36) 4. Recado Bossa Nova
(5:28) 5. I’d be There
(3:14) 6. O Barquinho
(3:31) 7. Unchain My Heart
(5:48) 8. Triste
(3:46) 9. Louisiana Fairy Tale
(7:39) 10. Quasimodo
(5:50) 11. Social Call
(6:11) 12. Ruby My Dear
(6:27) 13. Laura
(3:08) 14. After You’ve Gone
(6:12) 15. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
(3:57) 16. Since You've Been Gone

«The learning of music is infinite… I always think that we can do things better, without ceasing to enjoy what we do.
When you work with such young musicians it is very important what you teach, yet it’s even more important what you can convey and how you do it, because this will be what makes them want to do music on their own, in an intense, passionate and exciting way.» ~ Joan Chamorro https://santandreujazzband.bandcamp.com/album/jazzing-7

Personnel: Luigi Grasso, Enrique Oliver, Ignasi Terraza, Josep Traver, Esteve Pi, Toni Belenguer, Eva Fernández and Magali Datzira

Jazzing 7

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Joan Chamorro - Jazzing 8 Vol. 1

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:14
Size: 166,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:36) 1. The Elder
(4:06) 2. What's New
(3:40) 3. Lousiana Fairy Talev
(2:28) 4. Mike's Peak
(5:09) 5. Doralice
(1:56) 6. Blues in Hoss' Flat
(5:37) 7. Big Dipper
(4:26) 8. Baby, You've Got What It Takes
(5:00) 9. Souvenir
(5:30) 10. Bebop
(3:38) 11. A Kiss to Build a Dream
(2:38) 12. Jubilee Stomp
(5:15) 13. Our Love is Here to Stay
(3:12) 14. This Could Be the Star of Somethin
(4:14) 15. Just You, Just Me
(7:42) 16. Count Bubba

Jazzing 8, vol. 1 is the first of 3 volumes: This new work, although it includes many vocal themes, also contains so many instrumental themes in which the increasingly numerous soloists of the orchestra have their opportunity to share their creativity, their ability to generate their own discourse, in a continuous evolution. https://jazztojazz.com/en/product/jazzing-8-vol-1/

Jazzing 8 Vol. 1

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Joan Chamorro presenta Joana Casanova

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
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

Joan Chamorro presenta Joana Casanova