Alfredo Rodríguez (pianist, born 1985)

Alfredo Rodríguez Salicio (born October 7, 1985) is a Cuban composer and jazz pianist.

Alfredo Rodríguez
Background information
Birth nameAlfredo Rodríguez
Born (1985-10-07) October 7, 1985
Havana, Cuba
GenresLatin jazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
InstrumentsPiano, synthesizer
Years active2006 – present
LabelsMack Avenue Records
Websitewww.alfredomusic.com

Rodríguez's interest in jazz was stimulated by the annual "JoJazz" competition for young jazz musicians,[1] where he won an honorable mention in 2003.[2]

Influences and playing style

A 2009 reviewer suggested that Rodríguez was "more a melding of Bill Evans, Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, even touches of Thelonious Monk in conception if not execution, [with] hints here and there of his Cuban heritage".[3]

Another critic in the same year wrote that, "In one tune, his crisp bebop lines recalled Bill Evans' early playing on the George Russell mid-fifties Jazz Workshop album. Other pieces suggested the melodic inventiveness of Keith Jarrett. And still others displayed a nascent style of his own, contrasting angular, leaping passages and thick harmonic clusters with sudden, unexpected arcs of lyricism".[4]

Discography
YearAlbumLabel
2012 Sounds of Space Mack Avenue
2014 The Invasion Parade Mack Avenue
2016 Tocororo Mack Avenue
2018 The Little Dream Mack Avenue
2019 Duologue with Pedrito Martínez Mack Avenue

References
  1. "El jazz en Cuba: una visión joven" (in Spanish). La Jiribilla. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  2. "Ernesto Vega and Luis Gonzalez Kings of JoJazz Festival". WorldMusicCentral.org. Prensa Latina. 6 December 2003. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  3. "30th Detroit International Jazz Festival Celebrates Family". Jazz Police. Archived from the original on 2011-04-04. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
  4. "Live Jazz: Alfredo Rodriguez at Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc". International Review of Music. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
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