{"id":10701,"date":"2019-03-01T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=10701"},"modified":"2019-03-01T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:10:34","slug":"all-that-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/all-that-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"All That Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez to bring Cuban jazz to The Arygros<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Dana DuGan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Pedrito Martinez will join fellow Cuban musician Alfredo Rodriguez to bring their version of Afro-Cuban jazz to a show at The Argyros. Photo credit: Sun Valley Center for the Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts will present what should be a musical night to remember when it hosts Grammy-nominated Cuban jazz artists Alfredo Rodr\u00edguez and Pedrito Martinez for the final night of the Winter Performing Arts Series. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at the Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is known for his solo jazz piano career, and Martinez has a flourishing percussion career as the leader of the Pedrito Martinez Group. Rodriguez is the son of a famous Cuban professional singer and composer of the same name. Even before he defected to the U.S. in 2009, Rodriguez had caught the attention of Quincy Jones\u2014at the Montreux Jazz Festival, no less.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Jones became his mentor and produced two of Rodriguez\u2019s albums, on which Martinez also played, the newly released \u201cDuologue\u201d and \u201cThe Invasion Parade\u201d released in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe piano is so general,\u201d Martinez said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. \u201cI don\u2019t only play the piano as a melodic instrument. For me, it\u2019s a total instrument. I could do whatever I wanted with a piano. I could play drums on the piano. I like music that\u2019s very rhythmic, with a lot of contrapuntal. I\u2019m a person who thinks that life is to be explored. And that is simply what I do with music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though educated in rigorous classical training in Havana, Martinez\u2019s piano playing is jazzed up by his Afro-Cuban roots. He has shared stages with jazz artists such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Patti Austin, James Ingram, McCoy Tyner and Esperanza Spalding.<\/p>\n

Conversely, Martinez\u2019s individualistic Afro-Cuban musical training came from the streets of the Cayo Hueso neighborhood of Old Havana where he grew up streetwise and musically inclined. Among those with whom he has performed are Eddie Palmieri, Paul Simon, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D\u2019Rivera and the super-group, Nuevo Jazz Latino.<\/p>\n

The musicians began playing occasional live gigs as a duo just two years ago. The style of their collaboration is described as fuse jazz and Afro-Cuban music.<\/p>\n

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Alfredo Rodriguez is an emerging star mentored by Quincy Jones. Photo credit: Sun Valley Center for the Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what he does with the music,\u201d Martinez said of Rodriguez in an interview earlier this year on NPR. People expect something different, but \u201cthen he turns his music into something different that blows people\u2019s minds. So, you know, that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kristine Bretall, The Center\u2019s director of Performing Arts, recalled Rodriguez\u2019s effect on the Sun Valley Summer Symphony audience a few years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince then, I\u2019ve [also] had the opportunity to see Pedrito Martinez on his own as well as when he\u2019s played with Alfredo, and I feel like we\u2019ve hit the jackpot to be able to get them both out here at the same time,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen they come together on stage, it\u2019s magic. They play off each other, and it will be wonderful to see their individual and combined artistry in the intimate space of The Argyros.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information and tickets, contact the Sun Valley Center at sunvalleycenter.org or (208) 726-9491.<\/p>\n

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