Pedro Martins (musician)

Pedro Martins (born June 1993 ) is a Brazilian jazz musician (guitar, also vocals, piano, bass and drums) and composer. According to the SWR , he is "one of the most creative of the ambitious South American jazz scene."

Martins learned to play guitar by ear at the age of six and later appeared in rock and choro bands. As an autodidact , he not only learned acoustic and electric guitar, but also sings and plays other instruments. He worked with Milton Nascimento , Gabriel Grossi and Léo Gandelman , among others . His first studio album under his own name, Sonhando Alto / Dreaming High (Adventure Music, 2012) produced by Hamilton de Holanda , received critical acclaim. In 2015 he won the guitar competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival ; then he toured the world with Kurt Rosenwinkel's band Caipi . In 2016 he presented the duo album Simbiose with guitar colleague Daniel Santiago .

Martin's compositions are deeply rooted in Brazilian music genres such as choro and at the same time open to elements from jazz, fusion , new music , world music and progressive rock . He curated the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2017 and performed there with the singer Genevieve Artadi , the saxophonists Dave Binney and Sebastian Gille as well as a Brazilian rhythm group made up of Frederico Heliodoro (electro bass) and Antonio Loureira (drums).

Web links

• Meeting Dreaming High
• Soundcloud
• Pedro Martins at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} SWR-New Jazz Meeting 2017
2. ↑ meeting
3. ↑ "If you know the goal, you can hit": "Simbiose" with Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins