I met Koldo when he was 6 years old, as a sax student. At the age of 8, in 2014, he was already part of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.
I have seen his personal and musical evolution over all these years. He has been and still is a very pleasant person to work with. Good companion, punctual, respectful, sensitive, committed…
As a musician, he is a very good professional, with a voice of his own that he will develop little by little over the next few years. Very good reader, very good technique, inventive improviser, and with the ability to continually surprise in his speech.
As a vocalist, he relatively recently began to have songs as the soloist, within the Sant Andreu Jazz Band. His voice combines the influence of the jazz vocalists that he has been listening to all these years and his passion for musicals, creating his own personal style, one that we can also hear in his original compositions.
In 2009, I started with this Joan Chamorro presents collection, and I did it with Andrea Motis. I never thought this collection would reach number 20, but here we are with this new CD that makes me proud and fills me with happiness.
At the time of this recording, Koldo was 17 years old and already had more than 32 CDs recorded in the context of the SAJB.
He has played and record alongside world-class musicians, such as those who collaborate on his album: Scott Hamilton, Joel Frahm, Enrique Oliver and, during all these years, with Luigi Grasso, John Allred, Jon-erik Kellso, Scott Robinson, Dick Oatts, Joe Magnarelli, and a long etc.
He has been the first alto on the sax section for some years, after playing second alongside Joan Martí. It was a good school.
As a first alto, he has an expressive and powerful sound that makes him a wonderful lead sax.
After Alba Esteban left the baritone sax position, Koldo assumed that role, sharing an album, Jazzing 13, with her, doubling the baritone, as Sahib Sihab and Cecil Payne did in their day, in Dizzy Gillespie’s big band.
The fact that Koldo has become the baritonist of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band this last couple of years, and that he has recorded several songs on his album with this sax that is so special to me, also makes me very happy.
Congratulations, Koldo, for your career, for this wonderful album and for living music so passionately.
I wish you all the best!!!