Pedrito Martínez

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Pedrito Martinez (2020)
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Pedro Pablo "Pedrito" Martínez (born September 12, 1973 in Havana ) is an American singer and percussionist ( conga , batá drum, etc.) of Cuban origin. It is shaped by the Afro-Cuban rumba and the Santería tradition.

Live and act

Martínez grew up in Cuba and performed there at the age of eleven. He played there with Tata Güines and Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, among others . In 1998, he went with the Spirits of Havana by Jane Bunnett to Canada. He also made his first recording with the Spirits of Havana in 1996 (Chamalongo, Blue Note). In 2000 he won the Thelonious Monk competition , at the time for the first time in the Afro-Latin-Jazz hand drum category . Then he moved to New York.

There he became a member of the fusion band Yerba Buena , with whom he released two albums, and plays and tours with his own band, the Pedrito Martinez Group . With them he played u. a. at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Umbria Jazz Festival and Jazzopen Stuttgart .

Martínez is involved in more than 100 albums as a studio musician ; he took part with Paquito D'Rivera , Eliane Elias ( Light my Fire , Concord 2011), Kip Hanrahan , Mark Weinstein , Arturo O'Farrill with Claudia Acuña , Jason Lindner , Stefon Harris , Steve Turre , Eddie Palmieri (on his and Brian Lynch with a Grammy excellent album Simpático ), Issac Delgado , Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Conrad Herwig and Edie Brickell on. He also played with Cassandra Wilson , Joe Lovano , Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Sting (at a benefit concert for rainforests).

His debut album Slave to Africa (self-published or EMI Japan) was released in 2006, followed by the second album under his own name Rumba de la Isla (Calle 54) in 2013 and the debut of his quartet Pedrito Martínez Group (Motéma) in the same year . The album Duologue was released with the pianist Alfredo Rodríguez (Mack Avenue Records 2019). With Eric Clapton he released a new version of " My Father's Eyes " in 2020 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Based on the discography by Tom Lord
  2. ↑ Portrait (SF Jazz) ( Memento from July 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Eric Clapton and Pedrito Martinez Covers 'My Father's Eyes'
personal data
SURNAME Martínez, Pedrito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martínez, Pedro Pablo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-American musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana