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Peter Martin: Something Unexpected
by David Adler
Peter Martin, the 30-year-old from New Orleans, is the second pianist (after Bruce Barth) to be showcased on the MaxJazz label’s new piano series. (Interestingly, Bruce Barth is listed along with Martin as a co-producer.) The exciting date was recorded live in St. Louis, and it features a happening quintet in top form. Trumpeter Nicholas Payton shares the frontline with one of jazz’s best-kept secrets, tenor saxophonist Brice Winston; bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Adonis Rose anchor the rhythm section ...
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by AAJ Staff
Peter Martin is one of those very competent, very capable younger jazz musicians who managed to slip under radar during the great publicity-fueled, sometimes more hype-than-substance, commotion of the 90s: aka the Young Lions movement. Despite having collaborated with any number of bona-fide jazz stars (Roy Hargrove, Josh Redman, Dianne Reeves among others) in recent years, Martin had yet never recorded an album under his own name and was not seen as a leader much outside of his New Orleans ...
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