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Musician

Marina Albero was born in Barcelona in 1979 and since her early childhood she has been involved in the world of music. She played traditional and early music with the family band Grallers de Banyoles-Estampida Medieval. At the age of eight she enrolled at the public School of Music where she studied theory and piano. Four years later, she studied jazz drums with César Martínez and jazz piano with Lluís Escuadra at Taller de Música de Banyoles and kept on working with the family project, which took them several times to Japan and the US. Marina studied music theory at the Conservatori Isaac Albéniz (Girona), symphonic percussion at the Conservatorio Municipal de Barcelona and took private piano lessons with C.Julià

Article: Radio & Podcasts

No Ordinary Love - Celebrating Jazz Aquarians Barbara Carroll, Etta James and Sade Adu

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 3, 2020

This week our playlist includes new releases by pianists Yelena Eckemoff and Marina Albero, trumpetist Gabriel Mark Hasselbach, and trombonist Audrey Ochoa, plus birthday shout outs to Etta James, Barbara Carroll, Sade, Mariah Parker, Adi Meyerson, Kate McGarry, Lizz Wright, Peter Eldridge, Cheryl Bentyne and Chelsea McBride, among others. Also a nod to Mary Lou Williams, ...

Album

A Life Soundtrack

By Marina Albero

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Mi Secreto; Greek Dance; Cardamomo; Baile Corrido; Tarda d'Estiu; Mon Pou; Indian Jam; K'Antiga; Prelude to Agartha; Overture; Agua Clara; Indiana; Interlude; Not Quite Yet; Superionic; Contracorriente; Nana Del Mar; To Be Continued; My Favorite Things; Calma; I Thought I knew; Nardis; Unexpected; Mompou in Blue; 19 y 42; The Sweetness of the Edge; What Is this Thing Called Love; Music Is Love.

Article: Album Review

Marina Albero: A Life Soundtrack

Read "A Life Soundtrack" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
December 18, 2019

Attempts to characterize the music of Barcelona-born pianist Marina Albero seem to get lost in the details. She is not an artist who found herself within a passion for a particular form. That her music is the sum of her life experiences would be a factual description that would nonetheless fall short, given the far reaching, ...

Article: Interview

Dawn Clement: Here In The Moment

by Paul Rauch
January 23, 2018

Dawn Clement is like a primal force of nature. From being the mother of three young children, to her professorship at Cornish College of the Arts, to her performing career as a touring and recording artist, she maintains a musical standard of excellence achieved by very few. Her piano style is strong and versatile, whether she ...

Article: Interview

Generation Next: Four Voices From Seattle

by Paul Rauch
June 19, 2017

Each generation, an insidious notion arises, and is passed about the musical world that jazz music, the only uniquely American art form is somehow experiencing a slow, but certain death. Inevitably, this notion is set aside, and somehow projected forward in time, as a new generation of artists rise to the occasion, not only facilitating the ...

News: Festival

Ballard Jazz Festival Preview: A Seattle Rite Of Spring

April 1, 2017

The Ballard Jazz Festival, Seattle's most anticipated and community oriented jazz event, will take place May 17-20, and will headline legendary saxophonist, Chico Freeman. Dubbed three decades ago as one of the “young lions" of jazz for his participation in recordings with other “stars to be," such as Wynton Marsalis, Kevin Eubanks, and Paquito D'Rivera, Freeman's ...

Article: Interview

D'Vonne Lewis: It's About the Love

by Paul Rauch
December 22, 2016

On the Seattle jazz scene, no musician is more visible than drummer D'Vonne Lewis. Whether he is touring and playing with his band Industrial Revelation, leading his flexible and innovative combo, D'Vonne Lewis Limited Edition, or playing as a sideman on multiple projects around town, Lewis brings to the bandstand a remarkable versatility, and musical identity ...

Article: Profile

Tula's Jazz Club: A Seattle Tradition in the Making

by Paul Rauch
September 7, 2016

Life in the Pacific Northwest is hauntingly similar to jazz music itself, from that which is inward, deep in the recesses of our collective soul, to the outward expressionism as a ray of sunlight, an exaltation of joy, harmony expressed in the deep, deep blue of sentient life, and of our enlightened sky. High notes expressed ...

Article: Interview

Marina Albero: The Sweetness of the Edge

by Paul Rauch
August 26, 2016

Marina Albero burst onto the Seattle jazz scene in April of 2014, playing a brilliant set on vibraphone in a duo with flamenco jazz master, pianist Chano Dominguez. That evening we were not only introduced to her music, but to our new neighbor, as she was moving her family to Seattle from Barcelona. Since that time ...