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Jose Martinez

Jose has been playing drums professionally since 1990. He was very active in the Seattle jazz scene from 1996 to 2016, performing with various local artists in the Emerald City.

Jose recieved his education at the University of Northern Colorado with a BA in music.

He now resides in the city of Chicago, Illinois where you can find him performing nightly with Teatro Zinzanni.


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Album Review

Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions

Read "Improbable Solutions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Most fans of Seattle-based pianist Bill Anschell will not see this one coming. His comfort zone on his own recordings has been as a mainstream acoustic jazz artist, on albums like Shifting Standards (2018), a piano trio affair, Rumbler (2017) and Figments (2011), a solo piano outing. All of these were released on Origin Records. Anschell, who formerly worked as vocalist Nnenna Freelon's musical director, crafts his recordings with a high polish and does not generally rock the ...

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Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions

Read "Improbable Solutions" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Pianist and composer Bill Anschell has made his mark in jazz as a distinctive pianist with a notable body of work. His time in Atlanta, and his extensive residency in Seattle, has produced ten recordings as a leader or co-leader, and a well-deserved following on live dates with two distinctive trios, plus his “Rumbler" band. His previous two recordings define the past decade of his career, with Shifting Standards (Origin, 2018) bearing witness to his trio prowess with partners Jeff ...

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Ryan Burns: Birds

Read "Birds" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Keyboardist Ryan Burns possesses a distinctive artistry, one that is integral to the success of the sound of the Matt Jorgensen + 451 group on sets such as Hope (Origin Records, 2004) and Another Morning (Origin Records, 2008), and with trumpeter Thomas Marriott on the strange and stellar Crazy:The Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008). Burns also works as a leader on the acoustic piano trio set Tree-O (Odd Bird Records, 2007), and now on the plugged-in Birds. A ...

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Ryan Burns / Geoff Cooke / Jose Martinez: Tree-O

Read "Tree-O" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Tree-O, a Ryan Burns-led piano trio affair, caught me by surprise. I was already familiar with Burns' work with Matt Jorgensen + 451 on the CD Hope (Origin Records, '04) and an excellent live show with that group at Dizzy's in San Diego, so I thought this effort would fall into the forward-lean/electric keyboard category. But it's an acoustic set, a genuine tip of the hat to the piano trio's past.The opener, “Gettin' Red-y (for Red Garland)," sets ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Improbable Solutions

Origin Records
2023

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Birds

Odd Bird Records
2010

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Tree-O

Odd Bird Records
2007

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"Here's Johnny"

BP Music Productions
1998

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Ambulator

From: Improbable Solutions
By Jose Martinez

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