Joan Chamorro - Joan Chamorro Presenta Carla Motis (2019)

Thirteen years of jazz and 12 "Joan Chamorro presents ...", in this case Carla Motis, who joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band in 2008, aged 11, and who has been the only guitarist In the mode of Freddie Green in Count Basie's bigband, Carla Motis, discreetly, during all these years, has given a special sound to the rhythm section, his time, each day that passed, was more solid, her "compings" supported the emerging soloists and she stayed in the background, but with a great rhythmic and harmonic contribution.
My work in the context of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band has been to try not only to teach music properly, but also to transmit my passion for it. To see the young people who start at a very early age to dedicate themselves to music, specifically to Jazz, is something wonderful and it is worth dedicating part of our time to. On the other hand, I understand that all students are different and that their time in the learning processes and to give light to their creativity and what they are learning and assimilating, also, they are also. Carla Motis is, for me, and I say it with a lot of satisfaction, the realization that work, perseverance, patience and believing in something have their reward. Carla Motis, discreetly but in a continuous evolution, begins, three or four years ago, to emerge with her improvisations, little by little, timidly, with a coherent speech, beyond her rhythmic function. A speech based on the bebop, with references like Charlie Christian, Grant Creen or Wes Montgomery, and all this with a work supervised with great success by his teacher and collaborator in many of my projects, Josep Traver.
And growing and enjoying every day of its evolution, comes this CD, in which we can hear the wonderful phrasing of Carla, as well as a beautiful sound and a coherent and increasingly original speech. One of the things that I would like to highlight especially is the incredible time and swing that characterizes it.
"Carla is coming", and never stop, because I am convinced that Carla has a lot to tell us with her voice, with the voice of her guitar, because both are the same, and melt together, as it can not be otherwise in it, a wonderful artist ...