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New David Martinez Single Made With Groove And Passion
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Christine King
David Martinez is a recording artist, guitarist and musician based out of Los Angeles, California. Recently, he has been quite busy in the studio, creating new and exciting music for the audience, even at a time in which many artists are sadly stuck due to the current coronavirus pandemic. His most recent recording endeavor is a song titled Simple Talk. This track is nothing short of extraordinary, and it is also a great insight into David’s skillful guitar playing and ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The percussive prowess of Pedrito Martinez
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring percussionist and vocalist Pedrito Martinez, who's coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 24 through Sunday, April 28 at Jazz St. Louis. Martinez, 45, was born and raised in Havana, Cuba, where he learned to play popular Cuban styles as well as Afro-Cuban folkloric and religious music on a variety of percussion instruments. He came to the U.S. from Havana in 1998, and over the past 20 years has ...
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Jazz this week: Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez, Tim Rushlow, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a couple of noteworthy duo performances, a country singer turned big-band crooner, a new location for one of Grand Center's jazz spots, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 1 Pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and percussionist/vocalist Pedrito Martinez will perform for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. The two Cuban natives will be joining forces as a duo for the first time ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and percussionist and singer Pedrito Martinez, who are coming to St. Louis for a series of duo performances starting Wednesday, February 1 through Saturday, February 4 at Jazz at the Bistro. Both Martinez, 43, and Rodriguez, who's 31, are originally from Cuba, and came to the United States to pursue their musical careers in 1998 and 2009, respectively. Martinez settled in New York City, and was part of the group ...
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Legendary Latin Jazz Bassist Ray Martinez releases "Legacy"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
New Release with Special Guests! Bassist for Mongo Santamaria, Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto & many more! RAY MARTINEZ' LEGACY “Born out of the multicultural dynamics of New York, Ray Martinez' Legacy was created with the idea of connecting musical concepts of both Africa and the African Diaspora. This musical innovation fuses Afro-Jazz (Latin jazz), the blues, funk and folklore rhythms of the Caribbean to create a familiar, yet new sound. Ray Martinez's Legacy incorporates 6/8 rhythms, Cha-Cha,Guaguanco, Samba, funk and ...
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Jazz this week: Pedrito Martinez, Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, East West Fusion Fest with Michael Manring, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
View more events at stlouis.jazznearyou.com. This weekend offers St. Louis fans of jazz and creative music a nice opportunity to see four different touring acts in four days at four different venues, plus a variety of performances from local players. Let's go to the highlights... Thursday, May 7 Percussionist Pedrito Martinez and his group will make their St. Louis debut with a one-night stand at Jazz at the Bistro. Martinez is a 41-year-old Cuban native who moved his homeland first ...
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New York City's Pedrito Martinez Group Signs with Motéma Music
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GoMedia PR
The charismatic Pedrito Martinez Group - a veritable 'Latino Fab Four' - who met and started playing together at the Guantanamera restaurant in New York City five years ago, is led by the much in-demand Cuban percussion wizard Pedrito Martinez. Pedrito has performed on over 100 recordings, including Eddie Palmieri and Bryan Lynch's 2010 Grammy®-winner Sympatico; was a member of the Grammy®-nominated fusion band Yerba Buena; and has played with greats such as Sting, Paul Simon and Wynton Marsalis. Co-featured ...
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Cuban Musician Pedrito Martinez Merges Cuban and Flamenco Rumba on New Album, Rumba de la Isla
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DL Media
Features Songs Once Interpreted By Camarón de la Isla Available March 12, 2013 from Sony Masterworks and Calle 54 Records Sony Masterworks in partnership with Calle 54 Records will release Cuban musician, Pedrito Martínez‘s new album Rumba de la Isla on March 12th, 2013. Featuring songs once interpreted by Camarón de la Isla, the legendary flamenco icon, Rumba de la Isla is produced by Fernando Trueba and Nat Chediak. The album celebrates the convergence of both the Cuban and Flamenco ...
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Agusti Fernandez, Baldo Martinez and Ramon Lopez - Triez (Emarcy, 2010) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Stef No doubt Spain's number one pianist in jazz is Agustí Fernández, whose playing spans the history of music, from classical over traditional jazz to avant-garde. Just to show the pianist's breadth, I confront this very accessible and almost Bill Evanesque album with Trio Local, reviewed below, bringing music totally out of the comfort zone of every listener, yet equally coherent as a trio performance. This album's title is a kind of joke, referring to the word “trio," but ...
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Revisiting Latin Jazz Classics: Sabu's Jazz Espagnole, Sabu Martinez
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
