La Màgia de la Veu & Jazz Ensemble: August concerts
This month of August keeps bringing the summer rythm of concerts: traveling around with Sant Andreu Jazz Band, from Barcelona (on the 4th) to St. Moritz, Switzerland (from 29th to September 4th); on the 3rd in Cardona, with the trio; presenting Joan Mar Sauqué in L’Estartit, on the 13th, and with the quintet on the 26th, in Igualada.
And there’s something else too: on August 23rd, 24th and 25th there’s a new project opening at Jamboree, in Barcelona: La Màgia de la Veu & Jazz Ensemble during San Miguel Mas i Mas Festival. 6 concerts (double session each of the days) that will become a celebration of the voice –and jazz music in general– through XXth century classics.
Joan Chamorro presents… The Magic of Voice & Jazz Ensemble
This time, Joan Chamorro retakes La Màgia de la Veu (The Magic of Voice), adding the voices and instruments of Alba Armengou (sax, trumpet), Alba Esteban (saxs, clarinet), Elia Bastida (violin and tenor sax) and Abril Saurí (trumpet).
With Andrea Motis, Rita Payés, Joan Mar Sauqué, Joan Codina, Joan Martí, Josep Traver, Ignasi Terraza, Esteve Pi, and Chamorro himself, they will play last century’s standards with special arrangements for “small big band” written by Joan Monné.
Following on from the original La màgia de la veu album, Joan Chamorro’s quartet presents a new episode of this project, with the voices of Andrea Motis, Magalí Datzira, Rita Payés and Alba Armengou. Through these four very young singers and instrumentalists, Joan Chamorro’s quartet has prepared a repertoire paying tribute to the great ladies of jazz, including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. A re-reading of the classics with this country’s new jazz generation.
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All concerts
3 August 2016
Andrea Motis, Joan Chamorro & Josep Traver
Cardona
4 August 2016
with Sant Andreu Jazz Band
al Born de Barcelona
5 August 2016
with Sant Andreu Jazz Band
La Pobla de Segur
13 August 2016
Joan Chamorro presenta Joan Mar Sauqué
Festival de Torroella de Montgrí a l’Estartit
23 August 2016
La Màgia de la Veu & Jazz Ensemble
San Miguel Mas i Mas Festival; Jamboree, Barcelona
24 August 2016
La Màgia de la Veu & Jazz Ensemble
San Miguel Mas i Mas Festival; Jamboree, Barcelona
25 August 2016
La Màgia de la Veu & Jazz Ensemble
San Miguel Mas i Mas Festival; Jamboree, Barcelona
26 August 2016
Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quintet
Igualada
29 August 2016
with Sant Andreu Jazz Band
St. Moritz (Switzerland)
30 August 2016
with Sant Andreu Jazz Band
St. Moritz (Switzerland)
31 August 2016
with Sant Andreu Jazz Band
St. Moritz (Switzerland)
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Joan Chamorro presenta Carla Motis
Joan Chamorro presenta Alba Armengou
Do Outro Lado Do Azul
Jazzing 8, vol. 1 
Pack “All of Andrea” 
Emotional Dance 
Just Wondering – - where’s Eva Fernandez? Missing her as part of your jazz concerts. Is she not available now?
Hello John,
Sorry to answer that late!
All the kids of Sant Andreu Jazz Band “must” leave it when they are not kids anymore, so the younger ones can enroll and grow into jazz. And that’s the case of Eva, who now has a band of her own, the Eva Fernández Group, and a new album.
Anyway she continues collaborating with Joan Chamorro now and then, and also with other “ex-kids” and with even with the SAJB
Check her out, John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RXhASWNMDY&list=RD5RXhASWNMDY#t=149
I saw several of the concerts at the SAJB festival and enjoyed them all so much!
The last one , in the theatre, was a triumph from start to finish. The starting song built up to such a crescendo, a real WOW! moment . Alas I did not recognise the young singer who brought it off so well. Who was she ,please, and will that tune be on the cd/dvd which i hope will come out in due course ?
Looking to more of the the best jazz I hear these days at Palafrugell on sunday 9 oct.
Ian Gorham
Hello Ian,
I’ve asked Mr. Chamorro and he tells me the girl is Joana Casanova, and here you can watch her singing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWVHlMW0SWQ
The version she sang at the SAT theatre, during Sant Andreu Jazz Festival 2016, will be on the next CD volume, Jazzing 7, next year :D