Aged just 21, the Barcelona-based trumpeter, singer and composer Andrea Motis is no stranger to the recording process, having already made six albums with her chief collaborator and mentor, bassist and sax player Joan Chamorro. For this major label debut, which Motis has co-produced with Brian Bacchus and Jay Newland, the core (and highly accomplished) Spanish band is augmented by some well-chosen US guests including vibist Warren Wolf, accordionist Gil Goldstein and tenor saxist Joel Frahm. Playing the trumpet since the age of seven, Motis displays an impressive fluency on the instrument – in fact, you wish the album featured more of her trumpet playing. The wide-ranging set vibrates between the über-cool (a gossamer-light ‘Matilda’) and the full-blooded (a bracing account of ‘Never Will I Marry’). As well as summoning up an impressive yearning quality in ‘Chega de Saudade’, Motis also contributes a fine self-penned original (‘Save the Orangutan’), which clearly nods to past Blue Note heroes. Now a decade old, the pair having first met when Motis, aged 11, joined Barcelona's Sant Andreu Jazz Band, the Chamorro-Motis musical partnership appears to be going from strength to strength.