Andrea Motis (born 9 May 1995) is a Spanish jazz trumpeter, singer, sax player and songwriter who sings in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and English.[1]
Biography
Motis performing in February of 2014 at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.
From the age of seven, Motis developed musically at the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu (Barcelona).[2] In 2007, at twelve, she began to play in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, led by teacher and musician Joan Chamorro.[3]
In 2010, at the age of fifteen, she recorded an album of jazz standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis.,[4] featuring Bobby Gordon.
In 2012, she went on to record a second album, Feeling Good.[5]John Fordham reviewed it when Motis played at PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2014, stating "Motis has the kind of pearly, barely exhaled voice, paced with canny improv swerves and casual timing, from which jazz celebs are made."[6]
From 1–4 November 2015, Motis (tp, sax, voc), Chamorro (b, ts) and Josep Traver (g) played as the opening act of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club at their "Adiós"-tour concerts in Boston[7]
and New York.[8] In these concerts, Omara Portuondo sang Dos Gardenias as an encore, together with Motis.
Motis made her major label debut with Emotional Dance (Impulse!, 2017).[9] In 2019, Do outro lado do azul followed with Brasilian songs and compositions of her own.
During Yo-Yo Ma's world tournee The Bach Project, he started the Barcelona project day on 25 September 2019, with Motis in a public park.[10]
They performed a duet on El cant dels ocells, a catalonian folk song[11] which has come to world-wide prominence by Pau Casals (Cello).
Another version of this duet has been published on Yo-Yo Ma's album Notes For The Future.[12]
2021, Motis, Mike Mossman and WDR Big BandCologne produced Colors & Shadows.[13]Loopholes (2022) is an album of the namesake quintet which Motis co-leads with her husband Christoph Mallinger, an Austrian jazz violinist.[14]
Private life
In October, 2020, Motis announced the birth of a boy.[15]
Discography
Joan Chamorro presenta Andrea Motis (Temps, 2010)
Motis Chamorro Quintet Live at Jamboree featuring Scott Hamilton (Swit, 2013)
Live at Casa Fuster (2014)
Feeling Good with Joan Chamorro (Temps, 2012; Whaling City Sound, 2015)
Coses Que Es Diuen Però Que No Es Fan, NewCat, Andrea Motis Joan Chamorro (DiscMedi, 2015)
Motis Chamorro Big Band Live (2015)
Joan Chamorro presenta La magia de la veu (Jazz to Jazz, 2015)
Live at Palau de la Música (Jazz to Jazz, 2015)
He's Funny That Way (Impulse!, 2016)
Joan Chamorro presenta La magia de la veu & jazz ensemble (Jazz to Jazz, 2016)
^"El joven talento de Andrea Motis se destapa en el mundo del jazz" (in Spanish). Barcelona Cultura. February 3, 2011. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Ahora, bajo la batuta de Joan Chamorro, se ha publicado un álbum donde la jovencísima Andrea Motis protagoniza una buena demostración de los nuevos talentos jazzísticos catalanes. Con el nombre de Joan Chamorro presenta Andrea Motis, el disco llega un año después del editado por la misma Sant Andreu Jazz Band.
^Reed, James (November 3, 2015). "Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club says adiós, y gracias". Boston Globe. Retrieved April 28, 2023. Portuondo returned for an encore of Dos Gardenias, paired with the young Spanish jazz singer and trumpeter Andrea Motis, who opened the show in a sublime trio setting.
^Chinen, Nate (November 5, 2015). "Review: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Bids Adiós, With Notes of Loss". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2023. For an encore, she (Ms. Portuondo) sang Dos Gardenias, a bolero famously sung by Mr. Ferrer. She has her own history with the song, and shared it here with the young Spanish jazz singer Andrea Motis, the concert's opening act.
