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Pedro Martins

Born: June 14, 1993

Brazilian guitarist, vocalist and composer Pedro Martins is the newest addition to LA's thriving creative music scene. Martins has collaborated with everyone from Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jacob Collier, Thundercat, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter and JD Beck, to legendary guitar hero Eric Clapton.

Pedro hit the headlines in 2015, when he won the prestigious Montreux Guitar Competition as a young Brazilian prodigy and made a strong impression on the jury formed by Kurt Rosenwinkel and John McLaughlin. After studying guitar and piano as a child, this eclectic Brazilian musician has become a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter perfectly at ease with typical Brazilian genres like samba and choro, as well as with jazz, fusion, progressive rock, and world music.

2024 Winter JazzFest: The Out-of-Towners

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 9, 2024

New York's Winter JazzFest is a happening where globetrotters discover our scene's goings-on. It's also the place where New Yorkers get chance to hear music from abroad (or at least from out of town), including by musicians featured here. Enjoy a playlist which will make you want to go to see them live! Happy ...

Adjustments

By Scott Kinsey, Mer Sal

Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tiny Circles: Seroquel: Bleeding Tears: Innocent Victim: This Shell: Time Out Of Mind: Crying Smile: Feel Flows: Heart of Glass: 50 Circles Around The Sun: Down to You / Jungle Book: Don't Let Go

I Love Paris

By Melbreeze

Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Dat Dere; Sentimental Journey; Don't Explain; I Love Paris; My Funny Valentine; Yesterdays; What Lola Wants; Killing Me Softly With Your Song

Tiny Circles

September 25, 2021

Album: Adjustments
By Scott Kinsey, Mer Sal
Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:40

Take Five with Dion Kerr

by Dion Kerr
August 26, 2020

Meet Dion Kerr: Dion Kerr is a multi-dimensional artist (multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, songwriter, photographer, and videographer) born and raised in South Florida. Kerr's work reflects a broad range of influences and mediums. He has toured and recorded all around the world as both a leader and a sideman to a wide variety of groups spanning across ...

Scott Kinsey: On speaking Luniwaz with an accent

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 24, 2020

Scott Kinsey belongs among the most influential keyboard players of the past decades and seems capable of adapting to any style of music. Unlike those who came before him, Kinsey was born into the golden era of keyboards and synthesizers, when visionaries such as Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock had already begun to explore the vast ...

Most Read Album Reviews: 2019

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2020

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2019. The number to the right of the date published represents the article's read count as of December 30th. In The Key Of The Universe Joey DeFrancesco by ...

VOX

By Pedro Martins

Label: Heartcore Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Esqueça; Faces; Nova Maneira; K7 Dreams; Horizonte; Vida; B Side; Não me diga não; Verdade; Venus 13; Origem; Sertão Profundo; Quem eu sou.

Pedro Martins: VOX

by Friedrich Kunzmann
February 23, 2019

Big things were always going to be expected from Brazilian guitar prodigy Pedro Martins after he won the Montreux Guitar Competition in 2015. Under the guidance of Kurt Rosenwinkel, Martins has grown not only as a guitarist but also as a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer who has left his very own mark on Rosenwinkel's late Caipi ...