Category: hector latin jazz

  • Back at Dizzy’s, NY

    It was a pleasure coming back to Jazz At Lincoln Center’s beautiful Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Coca Cola, this time playing the amazing Acid Mambo music of Chris Washburne’s Syotos band! With spellbinding views of Central Park behind the stage, it is one of the most beautiful clubs in the entire…

  • DOWNBEAT Mag lists our CD (BANDAGRANDE: Big Band Theory) among the BEST ALBUMS of 2016

    With a great 4.5 star review, DOWNBEAT has put us among 2016’s best albums….

  • Foreign Affair at JOE’s PUB, New York!

    The newest incarnation of FOREIGN AFFAIR performed to a full house at the iconic JOE’s PUB on Lafayette Street, featuring vibraphonist Bill Ware (STEELY DAN, GROOVE COLLECTIVE),  percussionist Rudy Bird (KENNY GARRETT, WEATHER REPORT… MILES DAVIS), percussionist Samuel Torres (LILA DOWNs, RICHARD BONA), up-and-coming percussionist Memo Barros and yours truly…

  • Going Symphonic in Washington

    A beautiful musical exploration happened on Sunday November 17th at George Mason University’s Art Center, a beautiful 1700 seat theater, with the Washington Symphonic Brass in a successful crossover of Classical, Jazz and Pop music… Hector played on his own arrangement of Bach’s F major Prelude (WTK X) in the…

  • FOREIGN AFFAIR In Denmark

    FOREIGN AFFAIR conquered new horizons this past November 9th, performing, this time as a Trio, at the First Horsens Latin Jazz Festival in that charming town on the mainland side of Denmark. Being a first time made the festival a beautiful and very intimate affair, making our decision to bring…

  • Back at the Side Door Jazz Club in magic Old Lyme,CT!!

    Saturday October 26th, 8PM, Hector will be back at the fabulous SIDE DOOR JAZZ CLUB in Old Lyme, CT with his new project, PAU BRASIL… re-visiting Brazil’s rich musical culture through innovative arrangements of ageless standards and and original compositions. A fresh line up of  well-known personalities of NYC’s amazing Brazilian Jazz scene:…

  • Foreign Affair at KOZANI JAZZ FESTIVAL, Greece

    Ti Kanis? Orea!! Greece is coming back! And we’ll be there… Starting the late Summer/Fall schedule will be a series of performances and workshops at the First KOZANI JAZZ FESTIVAL, from September 4-7 in Kozani, Greece, a dream-like town not far from Thessaloniki. Thereafter, we will close our Greek Odissey…

  • Foreign Affair at Side Door Jazz Club

      This Friday July 19th and Saturday 20th, Foreign Affair Quartet will be performing at Connecticut’s newest and hippest Jazz venue, the Side Door Jazz Club, 85 Lyme Str, in the town of Old Lyme, CT starting at 8:30PM, After a successful 7-concert Japan stint and several week-long engagements at…

  • Foreign Affair in Tokyo…

    I am extremely excited to return to beautiful Tokyo in the middle of the Cherry Blossom Festivities… My quartet, Foreign Affair, featuring Samuel Torres (perc), Christos Rafalides (vibes) and Armando Gola (bass) will be playing 5 gigs in 4 venues around Tokyo, including the famous Mandala (April 2, 3), R2…

  • Exclusive appearance, Geneva, November 25th!

    As part of an already established tradition, every November Hector Martignon offers an exclusive musical evening at the beautiful Centre Robert Dunand, of the Conservatoire Populaire de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland). This year he will perform on Sunday, November 25th, 5PM, with two world-renowned virtuoso instrumentalists, Venezuelan multi-percussionist Roberto Quintero and…