Joan Chamorro & Joan Martí - Joan Chamorro Presenta Joan Martí (2021) Hi Res

I remember when I met Joan Martí. He was 7 years old and he was already a serious, responsible and very orderly person, with a special sense of humor. We laughed a lot in class. I was being serious, like him. He had a great capacity for concentration. He was constant. Demanding with what was asked of him and demanding with himself.

All these characteristics he continues to maintain now, 15 years later, when this CD is released.He was part of Sant Andreu between 2010 and 2020 and I continue to count on him for other projects. We always laugh when we remember that he spent a year playing Bill Bailey's first alto. Those were other times and we all learned our homework. They to play the sax, falling in love little by little with jazz, and I to try to teach better. His evolution was so great that he soon became a fundamental musician in the orchestra. He has led the string of saxophones, with a very fine, powerful sound, with the right vibrato at every moment, expressive as well as sober. He has alternated the alto sax with the tenor, the soprano, the clarinet, the flute, which has become important in his panoply of instruments, as well as the voice, with which he has a long way to go to develop.

As a soloist, he has recorded his evolution and know-how in several of the jazzings in recent years, and also in some of the performances of his fellow orchestras, such as the one who sees the light parallel to his, Marçal's. Perramon.I am really very happy that our paths crossed and that I was able to witness the personal and musical growth of a great person and a great musician that, I am sure, we will hear about.
The CD that we present is a marvel, a balance between arrangements for various instruments (mostly by Joan Monné) and quartet or quintet themes, also paying tribute to the great tenors in jazz history. I would highlight the participation of Joe Magnarelli, Perico Sambeat and Carlos Martín as guest soloists and also the rhythmic base with Joan Monné, David Xirgu and, in some songs, Josep Traver. The vocal part is also important in some songs, by Andrea Motis, Joana Casanova and Joan Martí himself.

As well as the original arrangement for the entire Sant Andreu Jazz Band, by Joan Martí himself, of the beautiful Indian Summer song.
If they ask me for an alto sax that leads, that does good solos, that reads at sight, that doubles with other instruments and that is serious with the work, I do not doubt it, automatically without thinking, I say: “Call Joan Martí, you will not regret". Joan Chamorro