Pedrito Martinez\u00a0 –\u00a0 CHIRP, Ballard Park\u00a0 –\u00a0 September 1, 2015<\/p>\n
Martinez leads this bare-bones Afro-Cuban group.\u00a0 The modestly scaled roster doesn’t prevent them from putting out a really full sound, including the occasional four part vocal harmony.\u00a0 A lot of the traditional stuff they do gets to jazz via folk music, perhaps less typically than the more familiar (to me) blues-based route.\u00a0 It has a degree of simplicity that allows for subtle improvisation and Martinez’s piercing vocal goads.\u00a0 On the other hand, Pantoja-Aleman composes some of the group’s songs, which have complex unexpected circuitous structures whose logic (but not beauty) was beyond my grasp.\u00a0 Benevides takes advantage of various percussive effects extracted from his electric bass.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Pedrito Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Edgar Pantoja-Aleman<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Alvaro Benevides<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Jhair Sala<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pedrito Martinez\u00a0 –\u00a0 CHIRP, Ballard Park\u00a0 –\u00a0 September 1, 2015 Martinez leads this bare-bones Afro-Cuban group.\u00a0 The modestly scaled roster doesn’t prevent them from putting out a really full sound, including the occasional four part vocal harmony.\u00a0 A lot of … Continue reading