You need to explain that.

Nothing wrong with Betchet, but not everyone likes that exaggerated vibrato style. If you do then that's fine by me.
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For me it's a bit like Edith Piaf.......... Distinctive..............but you don't want to hear it too often.

As a teenager, familiar with both, I preferred the version by Chris Barber's Monty Sunshine. Many did, as it was a million seller. But they and Bechet were "trad jazz." This lot can play anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpoq2TFwfd8

Anyway, Bechet was ugly, bad tempered and crap at singin'.

Back on topic.

As I said in my previous post, "this lot can play anything."

As an example;

Change of style, away from "big band numbers" a bit of a homage to my favourite jazz musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJgbzZAjcLE

Not to everyone's taste, but it does show their versatility.

Here's the original. I've had this on an album for more decades than I care to remember. Never tire of it.

The video (this is a more recent one of the same performance) always makes me smile when I see other musicians standing in the "wings" one with a fag on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4FI0Jq0lI

Probably off topic but it's Jazz influenced (just not from Catalonia) from Derry.

Victoria Geelan http://victoriageelan.bandcamp.com/a...it-the-picture

And from Belfast: Katharine Timoney https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0s...AJqCWedaxJHHoA

I can't resist plugging artists from Northern Ireland

I enjoyed those, shame the second one has had so few views.

That's the problem, so many good singers and musicians out there that never get any real exposure, as the music labels are only interested in promoting what they think the public wants.
Young people end up with such a "narrow perspective of music" through no fault of their own. Very little alternatives on TV. Even Jools Holland's "Later" programme is dominated by so many contributions from similar performers.

If it weren't for YouTube, I wouldn't have started the thread, as I and others wouldn't have been aware of this band.

The thing is, there is so much music out there nowadays that music media cannot possibly cover it all so music fans need to do some of the legwork themselves. Many don't though and just willingly suckle at the teat of commercial radio.

It is true that more variety is needed on mainstream radio though. Thank God for such shows as Across the Line on BBC Radio Ulster that covers a wide cross section of the Northern Ireland music scene. From there I am able to branch out on my own.

There's a few message boards dedicated to various genres of music, mostly USA based, I often find artists new to me, from trawling through some of them.

Another one of my favourite songs......'After You're Gone' with Eva looking very sexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGzWq-EqIhk

This song is how I discovered the manouche music........I was searching for versions on YT and came across Havana Swing......Scotland's own manouche gypsy jazz band

I think this is brilliant !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VzBXK9emdU

More excellent performances,


"After You've Gone" was a favourite amongst the British Traditional Jazz bands of the late fifties. The one in your link sounds much like Django Reinhardt's version.


More excellent performances,


In the first, you don't see much of her but there's Magali in the background playing up-tempo on bass.

Here's Magali, Andrea and Eva doing a bit of scat singing. Magali seems to always be in flats as she's so much taller than the others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZS2Kx1Hr9I

Their repertoire seems never-ending, but if you've been doing it for the best part of ten years...

Here's the latest upload, featuring a young girl I think we've seen before, on trumpet. How old can she be?
Too much of Jesse Davis playing alto sax. "The usual suspects" are seen back in their sections. But Magali's bass is very evident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_1WW6pqTo

I read in the info on one of the uploads, (all in Spanish so I used "Google translator").
The band has an arranger. It did give their name, but I can't find the video now.
You can see the young trombonist seems to be sight-reading his solo.
In some of the documentary videos I've seen a couple of the teachers who don't get a mention.

this is something different and rather nice........violinists join Joan and Andrea to perform a bosso nova.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwe7uZL5O5A

Nice.
Looking at Andrea Motis' dress, I'd think it was from the "Someday My Prince Will Come Concert" unless she wore it eighteen months later at a different one.

The name Ferrer comes up again, another relation?

More great playing from Josep Traver on his Gibson.

I think I've seen Chamorro playing a Selmer Mk6 tenor six. "The holy grail" of saxophones.

All saxophones look the same to me........

But a new saxophone shop has opened on the main road near me with hundreds of saxophones and other brass instruments on display

They look really nice

I suppose like most things you can pay as much as you want for a musical instrument but the ones in the front window go from about £700 to £6000.......

That sounds encouraging. I've seen more music shops close than open in the last ten years. On-line sales have taken away much of the business.

Latest upload from Joan Chamorro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JndKTKHgQ

This is unusual, a "slide/valve trumpet.,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxosY4e-ibk

More frequently featured on trumpet, but her performance on alto sax is just as good.

Duke Ellington's "All Too Soon."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeqtEkxcriE

Here's a video of the band from nearly five years ago, playing another Duke Ellington tune, the vocalist is fifteen at that time.
The information gives the ages of all the members when the video was made. The youngest was eight, average age around fifteen, only one over twenty..
Interesting to see that Eva Fernandez is credited as able to play soprano, alto and baritone sax, clarinet and trumpet.

Any guitarists out there might want to watch the reach of thirteen year-old Carla Motis' fingers playing mostly four chord bars, though I did notice a quick "flex" of them before the last bar. Can't blame the kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eofNvbqLC84

My favourite jazz band is the Teddy Wilson Orchestra who's late 1930s recordings are just magic. They're most famous now for employing the young Billie Holiday as their band singer but they played instrumentals and with other singers as well

Here's Teddy (piano), the Orchestra and Billie with their biggest pre-war hit 'I Cried for You'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcsBuZ3l1bI


and here's Joan, Andrea and the band with a marvellous cover......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfwSZXvRzk

Some good choices there.

I think the appeal for me is that much of this band's repertoire is "old fashioned modern jazz," Where they play the melody through once, then go into improvised solos, then return to the tune in the last chorus.

"I Cried for You," is a classic example, with the added bonus of a change in tempo after the first chorus.

The latest from Joan Chamorro, uploaded today, where does he find the time?
I'm more impressed with Eva Fernandez, great alto sax solo and she's developed a really nice tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRWZxFXXBCE

Andrea's now branching out into playing the drums......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41xBGhDtrB0

Is there no end to the girls talents?

There's a big difference between the personalities of her and her younger sister Carla, who just gets on with doing her job playing rhythm guitar. She always looks a bit self conscious, rarely smiles, occasionally looks right and left but is still the consummate professional..

On the subject of "getting on with the job" just look at the professionalism of the little girl who can't yet be in her teens, playing trumpet in the brass section, on my link to Eva Fernandez playing and singing "Georgia on My Mind," in my previous post.
Aware of what's going on, but knows the tune well enough to come in at exactly the right time, with no fuss.
See the clips at 2.51 and at 3.00. Just a quick glance down at her band part, plays her notes, then relaxes, as if she's been doing that for years... She probably has.

They keep coming, this one uploaded by the singer, maybe her mum videoed it?

For once, I wasn't particularly impressed. Not up to the usual standard.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvD83ZSi5Y

Joan Chamorro has also uploaded all the tracks on Magli Datzira's CD.

Elisabet is a new one to me........there's a few videos of her on YT which she appears to upload herself

Here she is with Joan and Andrea doing 'All of Me'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3qI8mNza0

There's also videos of Elisabet Carreno doing Adele and Beatles covers and playing Beethoven on piano........I don't know if it's the same girl, could well be.

According to the link, she uploaded this one herself too.

I guess they've got to find replacements for the eldest three as they all must be around twenty. But again I didn't think this was very good, her voice seems rather bland, even Andrea on trumpet seemed to be having an off day.
Given that it wasn't a Chamorro upload, maybe he wasn't too happy with it either?
But it's had a fair few hits in a couple of months.

It amazes me, the strength in depth of this youth band.

Marc Martin piano (on a Steinway no less).

Jaume Ferrer on clarinet.

Andrea Motis at her usual best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyc8nMqFMLg

Here Andrea Motis is playing her "second instrument" if you could find a distinction between the quality of trumpet and alto sax playing.

Here at nineteen she is sharing the solos with professional Jesse Davis at fifty, with probably thirty years more experience and she can hold her own. I think her tone is slightly better. "Bending" notes on a saxophone ain't easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcV_0267_is