Success at Tanjazz + October concerts
Andrea Motis was invited to participate at this year’s Tanjazz, Tanger’s jazz festival (Morocco), and it has been a success.
Celebrating its 17th edition, this year’s festival was dedicated to women, specially jazz women, and it took place between September 22nd and 25th.
With the name “Les femmes de Jazz” (the women of jazz) this year’s festival had the honor to participate on a United Nations’ program called “ONU Women”, which sponsored 3 of the musicians, including Andrea Motis.
The event was another step further on the way to find gender equality in the north african country but also in the whole world.
Here you can see a few minutes of Andrea Motis at the festival:
There is also an interesting article, in spanish, published on spanish newspaper El Mundo.
This month’s concerts
Next month, November, there will be concerts outside of Spain, in Europe, so keep an eye to the new agenda. For now, these are the gigs for October:
7 October, 2016
Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quartet
Hotel Casa Anamaria d’Ollers, Girona
8 October, 2016
Motis Chamorro Quintet & Young Band
Jazz Cava, Terrassa
14 October, 2016
Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quintet
Gran Teatro de Huelva
15 October, 2016
Andrea Motis, Josep Traver, Jaume Maristany
Espai Escènic Ca n’Humet. El Masnou
30 October, 2016
Joan Chamorro Reunion & Rita Payés
Festival Connexions, Teatre Apolo, Barcelona
Jazzing 10 Vol.3
Joan Chamorro plays Fredrik Carlquist’s arrangements
La Patum
Jazzing 10 Vol.2
Do Outro Lado Do Azul 
Joan Chamorro presenta Collection Super Pack 
Pack “All of Andrea” 
Emotional Dance 
I am absolutely amazed by Andrea’s command of English, in the Tanjazz interview.
She made incredible progress !
She is now fluent, it must help her a lot. I guess that when she sings, the words now flow easily without too much thinking, and she can concentrate on the details of the melody and the delivering of emotion. Bravo Andrea !
Andrea sang already fluently English in 2010, albeit with a slight Catalan accent.
Andrea we came to Barcelona in July hoping to hear you and the Quintet in concert but you were away touring in Europe. We did hear some very good flamingo guitar at the “Palia de la Musica” which is a very beautiful building, but it was not the same thing. You are evolving into a very fine jazz artist and your music is always like a breath of fresh air on a hot summers day. So when are you next visiting Paris to inject some fresh air into the sometimes boring Paris jazz scene?
Hey Ronald,
Thank you for your words, we have sent the message to Andrea :)
I’m happy to say that you are lucky because on November 10th Andrea will be on stage in Paris, at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (and in Fontainebleau on the 19th).
You can check and book your tickets here
I saw the concert by Andrea and the J. C. Quintet in Paris. It was one of the best live jazz concerts I’ve seen in a long time and I’ve seen a lot in many countries. Every member of this jazz band is a great musician and Andrea, like always, was sublime. The only sad part was when it had to end! I invited a friend who didn’t know Andrea’s music and she thought that Andrea’s performance was flawless and her voice exceptional. I also talked to an English couple who had seen Andrea in concert in Barcelona 2 years ago and were very impressed. They happened to be in Paris and quite by accident discovered that she would be on stage. They delayed their return home as they absolutely wanted to see Andrea in concert again. Like many who have heard or seen Andrea and the Quintet for the first time, they are infected by the “Andrea Bug” which is like a drug, once you get addicted you need more and more of it. The talented adolescent of a few years ago has evolved into a complete, mature and consummate jazz musician with an exceptional voice that can transmit emotion, sadness, joy, romanticism…. and where the effortless phrasing of even the most difficult lyrics results in a jazz experience as good as you would ever want. Add to this her instrumental versatility, a subtle, cool and unhurried trumpet, a melodious sax, recently the flugel horn, a charismatic and sympathetic personality with which audiences easily identify and you have a pretty unique musician. Andrea is constantly exploring new places and ideas in jazz whilst remaining true to its spirit (like the “New Cat” concert with its Catalan roots and very original arrangements and interpretations by Andrea), is not afraid to improvise which usually comes off brilliantly and is composing too. She keeps being compared to Billie Holiday or Sarah Vaughan, but while she might have been influenced by others (who isn’t?) when I listen to her music I hear Andrea Motis, not anybody else. Maybe in 20 years from now some rising new talent will be labeled “The New Andrea Motis”
When Joan Chamorro started his wonderful musical adventure 10 years ago with the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, I wonder if he realized how much impact he would have, turning out so many fine young musicians, and conquering and captivating audiences in Spain and way beyond. I’m thinking of the “Four Musketeers” (Andrea, Eva, Magali, Rita) Marc Matin and many others still developing in the pipeline. I always thought that great musicians cannot be programmed, they are just born that way, Joan seems to be contradicting this.
The Paris concert and Andrea’s voice are still reverberating in my head, which triggered off this reaction. Luckily there will be another in Fontainebleau on November 19th to which I look forward with pleasure. I hope that Andrea and the Quintet will come back often because we just love their music.
Wow, what an emotionally intense comment, Ron!! I’m truly happy that you could enjoy that much Andrea’s & company music.
Thank you