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Musician

Peter Martin

Born: August 17, 1970

Peter Martin is an acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, arranger, educator and entrepreneur. His touring career has taken him to six continents numerous times and has played in the White House by invitation from The President several times. Peter Martin performed on and arranged Dianne Reeves’ Grammy®-winning release A Little Moonlight and appeared in George Clooney’s 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as being the featured pianist and an arranger on the Grammy®-winning soundtrack. Peter has also performed, toured, and recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Betty Carter, Christian McBride, and Joshua Redman, as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic

Video

Everything in its Right Place

Featuring the music of Peter Martin
Duration: 04:53
October 4, 2026

Radiohead’s track “Everything in its Right Place” was seminal. It announced the transition of the band from indie guitar rock to ambient pulse music. The song, from 2000, has since been covered by several stars, including Robert Glasper and Brad Mehldau, but for the best version when it comes to a polished video, here’s a vote for the version from Open Studio. Open Studio is an online jazz teaching platform covering beginner to master class levels. Among its well-known teachers are the performers on this track: Peter Martin on piano, Adam Maness on synthesizer, Bob DeBoo on bass and bass synthesizer, and Kaleb Kirby on drums. Completed in a single take, this Radiohead cover tune offers an experience that should get any jazz fan’s head bobbing. Especially worth noting are the laid-back intensity; the dark visual backdrop contrasted with angled spotlights; the clever knob-turning effect from muffled tone to bright at 00:36; the reharmonized piano solo at 1:34, and the set-'em-loose drum solo.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sullivan Fortner: The Music Tells You Where to Go

by Leo Sidran
September 16, 2026

It is hard to overstate the exuberance and awe expressed by other musicians when talking about Sullivan Fortner. At under 40 years old, he is one of a small handful of pianists who have moved the instrument and its potential forward. And by doing so, he's demonstrated that innovation can happen from within the tradition of ...

Article: Interview

Sullivan Fortner: Nothing's Ever Finished

by Andrew Schinder
July 9, 2026

Modern jazz musicians are often faced with the impossible, and frankly unfair, task of honoring the music's history and traditions while adding modern elements and contemporary facets to make a 125-year-old musical genre sound fresh. This burden falls even more acutely on musicians hailing from, or who are particularly associated with, the City of New Orleans. ...

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
September 12, 2024

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

Article: Live Review

Nice Jazz Festival 2022

by Martin McFie
July 27, 2022

Nice Jazz Festival Nice,South of France July 15-19, 2022Deputy Mayor for Culture Robert Roux officially opened the Nice Jazz Festival 2022, together with artistic director Sebastien Vidal, who is also director of TSF jazz radio in France.Nduduzo Makhathini Quartet From the land of Zulu kings in South Africa, Nduduzo Makhathini ...

Article: Album Review

Christian McBride: Live at the Village Vanguard

by Edward Blanco
February 20, 2022

Bassist Christian McBride records his first live album with his highly-acclaimed quintet known as the Inside Straight, documenting an incredible evening of music on Live At The Village Vanguard. The album showcases outstanding performances from every member of the band. It is McBride's twelfth release on Mack Avenue and it was the Inside Straight quintet that ...

Article: Interview

Meet Brian Blade

by Craig Jolley
February 17, 2022

This article was first published at All About Jazz in April 2000. Musical background I started playing when I was thirteen in church. My father was the pastor. My brother, Brady, who was five years older (he still is) was the drummer. He left for college so it became my duty to take over ...

Album

Live at the Village Vanguard

By Christian McBride

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sweet Bread; Fair Hope Theme; Ms. Angelou; The Shade of the Cedar Tree; Gang Gang; Uncle james; Stick and Move.

Article: Album Review

Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Live at the Village Vanguard

by Mike Jurkovic
December 5, 2021

You may feel a whole lot better about things after checking out Live at the Village Vanguard. Now, without argument or scholarly discourse, that can be said for any of the time honored performances captured under that heady title, but here it's Christian McBride and Inside Straight and seriously, this one has fun written all over ...