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About José Luiz Martins

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Washington DC-based pianist and composer José Luiz Martins brings a unique and inventive approach to his playing, compositions and arrangements. His creative sense of storytelling combined with a diverse harmonic palette and refined sense of rhythm create a vibrant, expansive, and enticing sonic experience.That harmonic palette is on display both in this performance and his 2025 release Odyssey Mixtape. Featuring, among others, Alex Hamburger on flute and Patrick Duke Graney on percussion, and from a July 26th, 2025 ...

Album Review

Alex Hamburger: And She Spoke

Read "And She Spoke" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
May 17, 2022

The debut album from flautist Alex Hamburger is a strong addition to the growing number of jazz albums drawing inspiration from the work and lives of prominent female artists. She plays here the compositions of several women composers, Geri Allen, Mary Lou Williams andJoni Mitchell, and sets her own music to the words of authors Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and her grandmother, Paraguayan poet and activist Ana Maria R. Codas. The music on the album is in a ...