Alba is like a member of the family. She is a good friend of my son's and at home we have been fans of hers for years. She explains to me, enthusiastic, the new stage she is living: she leaves the Sant Andreu Jazz Band and starts a new project with the guitarist Vicente López, with an album included.
Alba speaks with the same delicacy with which she sings jazz standards or bossa nova and with the softness of her splendid trumpet solos. I ask her how she feels more comfortable, whether singing or playing the trumpet and she answers that, although they are different things, both allow her to express herself musically. Maybe singing -she tells me- I reach more people. The trumpet is more exclusive...
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"I was born on July 7, 2001. At the age of three I started studying music theory at the Conservatori del Liceu, and later, at the age of six, I began studying trumpet. In 2009 I entered the Institut Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell and joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, directed by Joan Chamorro, where shortly after I started singing. From the age of fourteen to sixteen I was part of the JONC (National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia). In 2018 I presented my first album as a co-leader with Joan Chamorro. A year later I began higher studies in jazz trumpet at ESMUC (Catalonia High School of Music).
In 2020, after the COVID confinement, I started a musical project with the guitarist Vicente López, which will result in what will be my first album under my name with my own compositions.
In recent years I have also been part of projects such as the Valparaiso Clasijazz Big band directed by Miho Hazama, the Barcelona Art Orquestra directed by Lluís Vidal and the Orquestra de Músiques d'Arrel de Catalunya directed by Dani López. Also throughout my career I have participated in more than 40 recordings where I have been able to collaborate with musicians such as Joel Fram, Jessie Davis, Scott Robinson, Joe Magnarelli, Perico Sambeat, Scott Hamilton, Dick Oatts, among many others.."
