Andrea Motis - Do Outro Lado Do Azul (2019) [HI-Res]

"Do Outro Lado Do Azul" is undoubtedly the most accomplished album, ambitious and personal of the young career of Andrea Motis. Continuing her evolution off the beaten track of traditional jazz, the young musician innovates both at the level of the orchestration and the rhythms and fragrances of a repertoire breaking definitively with the Great American Songbook to venture mainly on the music side. Brazilian, major reference who loves the entire album and gives it its coherence.

Like his voice which, confronted with the Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish, wins unquestionably in depth and emotion while preserving its youthful freshness and the spontaneity of a phrasing of extreme rhythmic precision, Motis, be it trumpet, flugelhorn and two themes on the soprano saxophone, impresses with its innate sense of line and the extraordinary parsimony of its minimalist style and subtly "disused". With "Do Outro Lado Do Azul" the young prodigy in the making definitely gave way to a great artist ...