Category: hector latin jazz

  • BANDAGRANDE + DAVE SAMUELS at Summer Concerts on the Hudson, August 29th, 7PM!!

    Take advantage of one of the last opportunities this summer to enjoy amazing live music in a magical open air atmosphere, with Manhattan’s skyline as a backdrop at Lincoln Harbor Park, Weehawken, NJ (one stop away from Port Authority on the 158 bus, platform 202, every 15 minutes. Driving directions…

  • Hector Martignon All Star Quartet @ DIZZY’s Coca Cola, NYC

    This week @ Dizzy’s Late set Please join us this week in one of NYC’s most spectacualr venues: DIZZY’s CLUB COCA COLA, located in the 5th floor of the Time Warner building (entrance: Broadway and 60th Street). On Tuesday, Wednesday (11PM), Friday and Saturday (12:30) an all star quartet, with John Benitez on bass, Samuel Torres on percussion, Christos Rafalides on vibraphone and Hector Martignon on piano and accordion, will…

  • The BIG BAND THEORY, May 9th, 8:30PM, at Merkin Hall

    Jazzics: from Classix to Tropix Series: THE BIG BAND THEORY, Wed. May 9th, 8:30PM, at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. 129 W 67 Str., NYC. After a year-long monthly residence at NYC’s famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe, BANDAGRANDE Big Band joins JAZZ CAMERATA to explore some of music’s purest forms, from…

  • FOREIGN AFFAIR in Geneva, November 19th

    On November 19th, 8PM FOREIGN AFFAIR Quartet will be at the Centre Robert Dunand of the Conservatoire Populaire de Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland (http://www.amiando.com/JWZHHAQ.html). Hope to see you!

  • Hector Martignon in Germany, Switzerland, November 2011

    Dear friends, November 8th-16th I will be conducting a Compact Seminar on Jazz and Jazz pedagogy, at the Ludwigsburg University of Education in Ludwigsburg, Germany with a Piano Solo Recital on the 15th, 7PM. On November 17th and 18th I will performing with my FOREIGN AFFAIR band in Lausanne, Switzerland, and…

  • THIS WEEK: Every Monday night, 7:30-9PM at WALKER STAGE, 56 Walker Street, Tribeca: THE BIG BAND THEORY.  It’s an open workshop to read, practice and perform Big Band music of all kinds, including originals by anybody who dares bring one. Walker Stage is a beautiful performance space in Tribeca. There’s…

  • Bandagrande at ZINC BAR and NUYORICAN

    Latin and Brazilian music through JAZZ’ symphonic format: the 18 piece Big Band. We are proud to welcome you to a whole new repertoire of Brazilian favorites and originals…. on Thursday, August 18th, 9:30PM….  our monthly rendezvous at the famed NUYORICAN POETS CAFE, 236 East 3rd Street (bet. aves B and C) and on Thursday, August 25th,…

  • BANDAGRANDE Big Band at Nuyorican and FB Lounge

    On Thursday, April 21st at 9:30PM, Hector and Friends’  new baby-project, an 18-piece power-sound-erupting machine, BANDAGRANDE Big Band, made music history at New York city’s lower East side’s famous NUYORICAN POETS CAFE, featuring some of the best Jazz and Latin Jazz players in town, including Chris Washburne (tb) , Samuel…

  • World Premiere of composition by Hector Martignon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC

    After a performance by one of New York city’s best string orchestras, Musica de Camara, at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, on Thursday April 7th. 2011,a review appeared in the New York Concert Review website. Among the compositions (all by Latin American composers) performed was Hector’s “Abre los Ojos, Cierra los Ojos” in a brand new…

  • Latest Classic-Jazz crossover release

    On April 20th, Hector and co-leader, Joe Burgstaller, are releasing their second album, Bach’s Secret Files, with the Summit Label. Incredible arrangements of Bach’s beautiful preludes in C minor and in F Major, the aria and first Variation of the exquisite Goldberg Variations and a daring re-inventing of Bach’s opus…