Andrea Motis

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From the age of seven, Motis developed musically at the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu (Barcelona).[https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/escolesmusica/ca/emmsantandreu Escola Municipal Música Sant Andreu] (katalanisch) In 2007, at twelve, she began to play in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, led by teacher and musician Joan Chamorro.{{cite web|title=Andrea Motis, o el jazz nacido en Sant Andreu|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/20101117/54072437285/andrea-motis-o-el-jazz-nacido-en-sant-andreu.html|publisher=Lavanguardia.com|accessdate=October 29, 2015 |date=January 17, 2010}}

In 2010, at the age of fifteen, she recorded an album of jazz standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis.,{{cite web|title=El joven talento de Andrea Motis se destapa en el mundo del jazz |url=http://barcelonacultura.bcn.cat/es/te-informamos/el-joven-talento-de-andrea-motis-se-destapa-en-el-mundo-del-jazz |publisher=Barcelona Cultura |language=Spanish |date=February 3, 2011 |quote=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. |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225065349/http://barcelonacultura.bcn.cat/es/te-informamos/el-joven-talento-de-andrea-motis-se-destapa-en-el-mundo-del-jazz |archivedate=December 25, 2014 }} featuring Bobby Gordon.

In 2012, she went on to record a second album, Feeling Good.{{cite web |last1=Lindsay |first1=Bruce |title=Joan Chamorro and Andrea Motis: Feeling Good |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/feeling-good-andrea-motis-temps-records-spain-review-by-bruce-lindsay.php |website=All About Jazz |accessdate=June 17, 2017 |language=en |date=September 17, 2014}}

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."{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/25/joan-chamorro-andrea-motis-feeling-good-album-review |title= Joan Chamorro/Andrea Motis: Feeling Good review – a jazz celeb is born |language=en |first=John |last=Fordham |date=September 25, 2014 |work=The Guardian |access-date=May 3, 2023 |quote=Motis has the kind of pearly, barely exhaled voice, paced with canny improv swerves and casual timing, from which jazz celebs are made. }}

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{{cite web |first=James |last=Reed |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/11/03/orquesta-buena-vista-social-club-says-adios-gracias/H17DgyAs0HFAcw89nSn5SN/story.html |title=Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club says adiós, y gracias |publisher=Boston Globe |date=November 3, 2015 |language=en |access-date=April 28, 2023 |quote=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. }}

and New York.{{cite web |first=Nate |last=Chinen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/arts/music/review-orquesta-buena-vista-social-club-bids-adios-with-notes-of-loss.html |title=Review: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Bids Adiós, With Notes of Loss |work=New York Times |date=November 5, 2015 |language=en |access-date=April 28, 2023 |quote=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. }} 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).{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Chris |title=Jazz: Andrea Motis: Emotional Dance |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/jazz-andrea-motis-emotional-dance-qkp7bpc3b |website=The Times UK |access-date=June 17, 2017 |date=February 24, 2017}} 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.{{cite web |url= https://bach.yo-yoma.com/Events/barcelona-spain/ |title= The Bach Project - Barcelona, 24.-25. September 2019 |language=en |website=bach.yo-yoma.com |access-date=May 3, 2023 |quote=Yo-Yo Ma began the day in a public performance with jazz singer and trumpet player Andrea Motis. }}

They performed a duet on El cant dels ocells, a catalonian folk song[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI6HSIVYP54&pp=ygUVeW8teW8gbWEgYW5kcmVhIG1vdGlz El cant dels ocells, Duet Yo-Yo Ma (Cello) with Andrea Motis (voc, tp)] (May 26, 2019, Youtube) 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.[https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/potpourri/31352-notes-for-the-future-yo-yo-ma Yo-Yo Ma: Notes For The Future] (Sony, 2021, Download and Streaming)

2021, Motis, Mike Mossman and WDR Big Band Cologne produced Colors & Shadows.{{cite web |access-date=April 12, 2023 |date=November 12, 2021 |publisher=Mosaik Music Promotion| title=Andrea Motis & WDR Big Band: Colors & Shadows |url=https://mosaik-promotion.de/article/?21270}}

Loopholes (2022) is an album of the namesake quintet which Motis co-leads with her husband Christoph Mallinger, an Austrian jazz violinist.{{cite web|access-date=April 14, 2023 |author=Stefan Michalzik |date=July 26, 2022 |language=de |title=Nichts für die Jazzpolizei |url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/musik/andrea-motis-und-ihr-quintett-loopholes-nichts-fuer-die-jazzpolizei-91696214.html |website=Frankfurter Rundschau}}

In October, 2020, Motis announced the birth of a boy.{{cite web |first=Andrea |last=Motis |url=https://www.facebook.com/AndreaMotisMusic/photos/aqu%C3%AD-con-nuestro-beb%C3%A9-ya-en-casa-se-llama-cel-y-naci%C3%B3-el-2-de-octubre-2020-os-en/3712058122179003/?locale=es_LA |title=Aquí con nuestro bebé, ya en casa |website=Facebook |date=October 7, 2020 |format=Facebook |language=ca |access-date=April 14, 2023 }}

• 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)
• Emotional Dance (Impulse!, 2017)

• Do Outro Lado Do Azul (Verve, 2019)
• Loopholes (2022)

• Marato de TV3 (TVC Disc, 2011)
• Miles Tribute Big Band: Sketches of Catalonia (Mas i Mas, 2015)
• Ramon Tort: ''Andrea Motis, La Trompeta Silenciosa - una historia sobre el triunfo de la sencillez (dvd 2019)
• Sant Andreu Jazz Band: Jazzing 12 vol 2 (Temps Record, 2021)
• Andrea Motis, WDR Big Band Cologne, Mike Mossman: Colors & shadows (Jazzline, 2021)
• Yo-Yo Ma: Notes For The Future (Sony, 2021, Download and Streaming)
• Joan Chamorro: Joan Chamorro Presenta's Big-Band (Jazz To Jazz, 2022)
• Joan Chamorro: Remembering Toni Belenguer (Jazz To Jazz, 2022)

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• [https://andreamotis.com/ Official website]
• [http://www.tv3.cat/videos/3872050/Concert-Andrea-Motis-i-Chamorro Concierto de Andrea Motis y Joan Chamorro Group] at the 43rd International Jazz Festival of Barcelona.
• [http://www.btv.cat/alacarta/la-galeria-dels-oficis/22625/ Barcelona TV: La galeria dels oficis: Andrea Motis y Joan Chamorro (Músics).]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304230440/http://www.montuno.com/wp-content/files_mf/1439819780AndreaMotis:JoanChamorroQuintetPizzaExpressJazzClubNewmusicreviewsnewsinterviewsTheArtsDesk.pdf Montuno.com]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150819210549/http://zaragozajazz.com/andrea-motis-y-joan-chamorro-elogiados-en-el-reino-unido/ Zaragozajazz.com]

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