Joan Chamorro & Sant Andreu Jazz Band
Biography Joan Chamorro & Sant Andreu Jazz Band
The Sant Andreu Jazz Band
is an association for the transmission and dissemination of Jazz music and the musical growth of children and young people who are members of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band. 13 years of illusion and magical results recorded in 9 CD-DVD recordings and 12 albums that emerged in the “Joan Chamorro Presents” collection, starring members of the Sant Andreu jazz band: Andrea Motis, Eva Fernandez, Magali Datzira, Rita Payes, Marc Martin, the project the magic of the veu, Joan Mar Sauqué, Èlia Bastida, Joan Codina, Alba Armengou and Carla Motis, representative of the more than 50 young people between 7 and 20 years old that has gone through the orchestra .
They have starred in the documentary “A film about kids and music” by director Ramon Tort and awarded worldwide,
They have performed in such venues as the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Licel, the Auditorium in Barcelona and have taken their music to national and international festivals such as: Switzerland, Stockholm, Italy, Marciac, Torreilles, Châteauneuf-du-Faou’s, Aix En provence, Muel, Xavia, Teulada and a long etcetera
They have been accompanied by jazz greats such as saxophonists Scott Hamilton, Perico Sambeat, Dick Oatts, Jesse Davis, Scott Robinson, Luigi Grasso, Joel Frahm, trumpeters Terell Stafford, Jon-Erik Kelsso, Ricard Gili, Josep Maria Farras, Fredrik Norén , Joe Magnarelli, trombonists John Allred, Wycliffe Gordon, Toni Belenguer, clarinetists Bobby Gordon and Kent Peploswky and their regular collaborators Ignasi Terraza, Josep Traver and Esteve Pi.
The Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a non-profit organization born from the educational project of the band of the same name: a jazz orchestra for which more than 60 musicians from six to twenty years old, led by the musician and pedagogue Joan Chamorro ..
The history of the pedagogical project of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band is that of a success that has been simmered, after 13 years of work, without haste or great ambitions, which now aims to go further with the 6th edition of the Jazzing-Festival of Jazz of Sant Andreu and the Jazz House, where the rehearsals and some of the recordings with the invited artists of the national and international scene take place.
Joan Chamorro
Saxophonist, clarinetist and double bassist. Founder and director of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band. It is part of the Big Band of Taller de Músics. He collaborates with the Big Band of Bellaterra, The Big Band by John Dubuclet, the Big Band Jazz Terrassa, Perico Sambeat Bigband, the supercombo of Eladio Reinon-Tete Montoliu, Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española, accompanies Manhattan Transfer and Steve Wonder etc. in several projects with the Orchestra of the Free Theater. For a year he collaborated with the theater group “Els Comediants” with whom he performed at festivals in cities such as New York, Santiago de Chile, Paris, Venice. It plays in the majority of the country’s festivals as well as festivals in France, Germany, Poland, England, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, South Africa, Brazil and a long etc.
He has worked with renowned musicians such as: Slide Hampton, Scott Robinson, Jon Allred, Tete Montoliu, Frank Foster, Gary Smulyan, Dick Oatts, Bebo Valdes, Ralf Lalama, Nicholas Payton, Teddy Edwards, Frank Wess, Jessy Davis, Dennis Rowland , J. Maria Farras, Perico Sambeat, Lluís Vidal, Randy Brecker, Carmen Lundy, David Mengual, David Xirgu, Mike P. Mossman, John Mosca, Bart Van Lier, David Allen, Bobby Shew, Judy Niemack, Lew Tabak etc.
It has more than 20 Cd’s produced and made by himself. 8 Volumes of his Jazzzing Collection as director of the SAJB and more than 50 national and international albums as sideman. He has a film with the SAJB “A film about kids and music” (Ramon Tort address) that has been awarded to the best national musical documentary film has received 14 national and international awards. However, he has won numerous prizes and in many editions: JAÇ Awards, Arco de la Música Awards, Enderrock Awards, Altavoz Awards, etc.
