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Joe Martin

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Joe Martin is one of the most sought-after bassists on the current New York City jazz scene. Known for his warm sound, facile ear, harmonic flexibility, and lyrical solos, he has performed with a diverse range of musicians which includes Andy Bey, Vinicius Cantuaria, Bill Charlap, Anat Cohen, Avishai Cohen, Billy Drummond, Art Farmer, Aaron Goldberg, Jon Gordon, Ari Hoenig, Joel Frahm, Larry Goldings, Gilad Hekselman, Ethan Iverson, Guillermo Klein, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ivan Lins, Lionel Loueke, Bill McHenry, John McNeil, Brad Mehldau, The Mingus Big Band, Ben Monder, Jane Monheit, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maria Schneider, Jaleel Shaw, Mark Turner, and many others. Continuous musical dialogue amongst great musicians is a major source of inspiration for Joe. Composition is another indispensable component to Joe's musical world

Album

Make A Sound

Label: Sky River Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Radial Artery; Make A Sound; An Empty Boat; Mist; Soul Bird; Here And Here And Here; Sundrop Flower; Moon River (For Shai); Solve For Love.

Album

Boundless Species

Label: La Reserve
Released: 2026
Track listing: Mar de Maracanã; Actual Proof; Essa Maré; Someplace Called Where; I Thought it Was You; Nós; Mingus Samba; Where Were You When I Needed You; Endangered Species; Outubro.

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Article: Interview

Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Acoustic Thrills With Brazilian Twist

Read "Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Acoustic Thrills With Brazilian Twist" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


The music of Brazil made its way into the jazz lexicon in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the bossa nova style emerged and caught on in the U.S., its chords and harmonies ripe for combining with the sensuous side of jazz. It's been a popular style ever since, with people in North ...

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Article: Album Review

Jamile & Vinicius Gomes, feat. Joe Martin: Boundless Species

Read "Boundless Species" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Vocalist Jamile and guitarist Vinicius Gomes bring their common backgrounds in Brazilian music to bear on a wide-ranging collection of songs here. It is expected that the two, assisted by bassist Joe Martin, would create an intimate atmosphere in their performances of songs by Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento. The surprise is that they do the ...

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Article: Live Review

The Billy Hart Quartet featuring Ethan Iverson at Blues Alley

Read "The Billy Hart Quartet featuring Ethan Iverson at Blues Alley" reviewed by Robert Bellafiore


The Billy Hart Quartet featuring Ethan Iverson Blues Alley Washington, DC May 3, 2026 Elder statesman of the drums, contributor to Miles Davis's On the Corner (Columbia, 1972), and Washington, DC, native: Billy Hart was the perfect figure to feature in a centennial celebration of Miles Davis at DC's Blues Alley. Hart ...

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Article: Live Review

Billy Hart Quartet and BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore at the Long Play Festival

Read "Billy Hart Quartet and BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore at the Long Play Festival" reviewed by Paul Reynolds


Billy Hart Quartet and BkankFor.ms with Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore Roulette  Long Play Festival New York, NY May 1, 2026 It's the “most important classical music festival in New York City," according to the New York Times. Yet the programmers for the Long Play Festival in Brooklyn also have big ears. ...

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Article: Play This!

Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Endangered Species

Read "Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: Endangered Species" reviewed by John Chacona


The musical exchange between Wayne Shorter and Brazil yielded some of the great man's most indelible compositions. Happily, the conversation happens in the other direction, as Jamile and guitarist Vinicius Gomes demonstrate on “Endangered Species." With its wide intervallic leaps and skylarking melodic trajectory, the song is for virtuosos only; notably, only Esperanza Spalding seems to ...

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Article: Album Review

Oded Tzur: Make A Sound

Read "Make A Sound" reviewed by David Bruggink


Make A Sound marks the first full release from saxophonist and composer Oded Tzúr's fledgling label, Sky River Music. After a pair of fiery albums for Enja Records and a string of esteemed releases on ECM Records, Tzúr sets out in a new direction with a set of tracks channeling deeply personal expression through his Indian-influenced jazz. He is accompanied ...

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Article: Live Review

Brazil Music Club at Winter Jazzfest 2026

Read "Brazil Music Club at Winter Jazzfest 2026" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Hamilton de Holanda Trio,  Flávio Silva, Jamile & Vinicius Gomes  Brazil Music Club at Winter JazzFest  Nublu 151  January 8, 2026 Nublu, which sits on the corner of Avenue C and 10th Street on the Lower East Side of New York City, was overflowing for Brazil Music Club night at the 2026 ...


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