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Joan Chamorro and Andrea Motis: Feeling Good
by Bruce Lindsay
Feeling Good is well named: the feelgood vibe is strong and the love of music that reaches out from this album is pretty much guaranteed to leave listeners with a similarly good feeling. It's the second album from Joan Chamorro--bassist, saxophonist and director of Barcelona's Sant Andreu Jazz Band--and the band's star member, the teenage singer and instrumentalist Andrea Motis. Chamorro's name may come first, but it's Motis' personality that shines through most strongly on Feeling Good. Chamorro ...
read moreJosep Soto: Groc
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Josep Soto is a Barcelona-based composer and guitarist of immense promise. Groc comes not long after Parabolico (PICAP, 2001), which featured reedman Paquito D'Rivera and won European acclaim, getting nominated for a Latin Grammy when it hit the ground in the US two years later. Groc is an unusual record. It is Josep Soto's not-so-secret and masterful way of acknowledging the collision of Spanish music with the music of cultures that Spain, Portugal and other Latin countries ...
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