Alfredo Rodríguez
Alfredo Rodríguez Salicio (born October 7, 1985) is a Cuban composer and jazz pianist. The older of two sons of Alfredo "Alfredito" Rodríguez, a professional singer, romantic song composer and television presenter and Mayra Salicio. He studied classical piano at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory, then at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory of Music and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.
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Alfredo Rodríguez
Cuban jazz pianist, b. 1985.
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- Name
- Alfredo Rodríguez
- Born
- 7 October 1985
- Birthplace
- Havana, Cuba
- Occupation
- Musician, composer
- Nationality
- Cuba.
- Fields
- piano performance, music and jazz.
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Alfredo Rodríguez Salicio (born October 7, 1985) is a Cuban composer and jazz pianist. The older of two sons of Alfredo "Alfredito" Rodríguez, a professional singer, romantic song composer and television presenter and Mayra Salicio. He studied classical piano at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory, then at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory of Music and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.
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Rodríguez's interest in jazz was stimulated by the annual "JoJazz" competition for young jazz musicians, where he won an honorable mention in 2003. In 2006, Rodríguez was selected as one of twelve pianists from around the world to play at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. It was there that he met the late music icon Quincy Jones, who then became both his producer and a mentor. One of Rodríguez's best-known compositions was made in collaboration with Quincy, Tan Dun, and Siedah Garrett; the anthem Better City, Better Life was selected as the official soundtrack of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. In 2015, Rodríguez received a Grammy nomination in the category "Best Instrumental Arrangement," for the song Guantanamera.
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• Name — Alfredo Rodríguez • Birth Name — Alfredo Rodríguez • Born — 7 October 1985 • Birthplace — Havana, Cuba • Genre — Latin jazz • Instruments — Piano, synthesizer • Occupation — Musician, composer • Years Active — 2006 – present • Label — Mack Avenue Records • Website — http: www.alfredomusic.com
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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". 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".
Discography
• Year — Album — Label • 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 • 2023 — Coral Way — Mack Avenue
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- 1.La Jiribilla. El jazz en Cuba: una visión joven. 4 January 2008.
- 2.WorldMusicCentral.org. Ernesto Vega and Luis Gonzalez Kings of JoJazz Festival. 6 December 2003.
- 3.Jazz Police. 30th Detroit International Jazz Festival Celebrates Family.
- 4.International Review of Music. Live Jazz: Alfredo Rodriguez at Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc.
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(MusicBrainz artist record for Alfredo Rodríguez) • Country: US (MusicBrainz artist record for Alfredo Rodríguez) • Described As: Cuban jazz pianist, b. 1985 (MusicBrainz artist record for Alfredo Rodríguez) • Kind Of Artist: person (MusicBrainz artist record for Alfredo Rodríguez) • Born: Alfredo Rodríguez was born in 1985 at Havana.
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