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Billy Martin es un innovador batería, percusionista, compositor, productor discográfico, educador y artista visual norteamericano que domina el jazz, el hip-hop y la música electrónica y africana entre otros géneros. Nacido en Nueva York, su padre era un violinista profesional que tocó en el New York City Ballet, el Beaux-Arts String Quartet y la Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, y su madre era una Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Ambos le transmitieron su amor por la música y él comenzó a aprender a tocar la batería cuando tenía once años, y luego a tocar con bandas de rock de instituto mientras estudiaba en la Manhattan School of Music.
Billy Martin is an American innovative drummer, percussionist, songwriter, record producer, educator and visual artist who masters jazz, hip hop and electronic and African music among other genres. Born in New York, his father was a professional violinist who played in the New York City Ballet, the Beaux-Arts String Quartet and the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and his mother was a Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Both passed on to him their love for music and he began learning to play drums when he was eleven years old, and then to play with high school rock bands while studying at the Manhattan School of Music.
Billy Martin
En 1981 Martin se introdujo en los clubs de su ciudad tocando hip hop y en 1982 empezó a recibir clases de samba en el Drummer’s Collective. Después tocó durante más de una década en la escena del jazz del centro de Nueva York con los grupos de música brasileña Batucada y Pe De Boi, el percusionista de bossa nova y world music Cyro Baptista, varias formaciones (ensemble) del batería de jazz Bob Moses, la John Lurie National Orchestra de avant-garde jazz, la Double Band del woodwind instrumentista Ned Rothenberg, el saxofonista alto John Zorn en su banda de jazz judío radical Masada y en su improvisational pieza de juego Cobra, el trompetista de smooth jazz Chuck Mangione (con quien hizo giras durante tres años), el batería y compositor Bobby Previte, el giradiscon DJ Logic y la cantante y compositora japonesa Miho Hatori.
In 1981 Martin got into the clubs in his city playing hip hop and in 1982 started taking samba lessons at the Drummer’s Collective. Then he played for more than a decade in New York’s downtown jazz scene with Brazilian music groups Batucada and Pe De Boi, bossa nova and world music percussionist Cyro Baptista, several jazz drummer Bob Moses ensembles, the avant-garde jazz John Lurie National Orchestra, woodwind instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg’s Double Band, alto saxophonist John Zorn in his radical Jewish jazz band Masada and in his improvisational game piece Cobra, smooth jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione (with whom he toured for three years), drummer and composer Bobby Previte, turntablist DJ Logic and Japanese singer and songwriter Miho Hatori.
Billy Martin
Además, a lo largo de su carrera ha colaborado con el prominent saxofonista alto, tenor y barítono de soul jazz y funk Maceo Parker, el saxofonista alto y soprano de avant-garde jazz Marty Ehrlich, el violinista y compositor Eyvind Kang, la electronic musician, batería y compositora Ikue Mori, el batería de jazz Calvin Weston, el disc-jockey y giradiscos DJ Olive y la intérprete de avant-garde con instrumentos chinos Min Xiao-Fen.
Also, throughout his career he has collaborated with prominent soul jazz and funk alto, tenor and baritone saxophonist Maceo Parker, avant-garde jazz alto and soprano saxophonist Marty Ehrlich, violinist and composer Eyvind Kang, electronic musician, drummer and songwriter Ikue Mori, jazz drummer Calvin Weston, disc jockey and turntablist DJ Olive, and Chinese instruments avant-garde performer Min Xiao-Fen.
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