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Hi, I'm Joan Chamorro
and I have been a jazz musician for 30 years old
I started playing music when I was already grown-up
at age 18, at the time when I had to decide...
what I would do with my life, with all the doubts we all had at that age
7 years ago I started a job
at the Sant Andreu Municipal Music School
with a group of eight or nine children
children and we started working...
but working maybe in a different way
mostly "by ear", transcriptions of disco music
searching in memory...
we gave the kids the chance to decide
what they wanted or did not want to play
within the style of the band which is focused in classic jazz from the thirties and fourties...
There are lots of young people making music, playing jazz, playing good music and good jazz
It is true that the youngest girl in the band right now is eight years old
in the band right now is eight years old
and when she joined us she was six
there are boys from 9 to 12 years old
I'm not striving to be the youngest jazz band in Europe
i just like working and believing that some young kids can be interested in this kind of music
and that working in a slightly different way they can achieve great things
so for me music is not only my profession...
because of the time I put into it,
but it is also my whole life