Alfredo Rodriguez Trio in Atlanta, GA!

“NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas” featuring NEA Jazz Master Barry Harris, Eddie Palmieri, Jason Moran and Alfredo Rodriguez

‎The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and National Public Radio presents: “NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas” featuring NEA Jazz Master Barry Harris, Eddie Palmieri, Jason Moran and Alfredo Rodriguez

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Omar Sosa Quartet / Alfredo Rodriguez Trio in Zaragoza, Spain!

Alfredo Rodriguez trio in Europe and Asia!

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Richard Bona and Alfredo Rodriguez in Asia!

Friday, October 28/2011 @ Shanghai Concert Hall – Shanghai, China

Saturday, October 29/2011 @ SEVVA – Hong Kong

Sunday, October 30/2011 @ SEVVA – Hong Kong

McCoy Tyner and Alfredo Rodriguez Live in New York

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‎JazzTimes Review: Alfredo Rodriguez @ Rigas Ritmi Festival 2011 by Thomas Conrad

Excerpt: “For his solo concert in Congress Centre he made some conventional choices of material from Cuban composers, like “Quizas Quizas Quizas” by Osvaldo Farrés, “Veinte Años” by Maria Teresa Vera and “Guantanamera” by José Fernández. But he elaborated them into vast unconventional personal essays. “Veinte Años” was a deeply private ceremony performed in public, Rodriguez bent so low his forehead almost touched the keys. He proceeded in slow swirls from which the melody rang out as it passed. Sometimes he would catch and hold “Veinte Años” before letting it spill again. He has a sensitive, nuanced touch, and understands the value of silence in music, but he can also make the piano orchestral, as on the gigantic washes of “All The Things You Are.” Sometimes he reminds you of solo Brad Mehldau in his ability to sustain simultaneous contrasting ideas crossing between his hands. But Rodriguez is a more open-ended pianist than Mehldau, willing to include wildly divergent content into a single improvisation. The washes of “All The Things You Are” became light, rippling single-note runs that circled back on themselves and became obsessive little patterns, then dissolved into abstraction, then became loud crescendos again.”

To read the full review, click here.

Entrevista con Roger Roca para “El Periódico” de Catalunya, España

Live In Paris! – Alfredo Rodriguez Trio

Alfredo Rodriguez Trio w/ Reinier Elizarde & Henry Cole

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Alfredo Rodriguez upcoming European Tour!

Here are the dates for Alfredo Rodriguez’s European Tour. Hope to see you there!

July 1 – Rigas Ritmi International Music Festival @ Riga Kongresu nams Rīga, Latvia
July 7 – Sunset / Sunside Jazz Club Paris, France
July 9 – Montreux Jazz Festival 2011 Montreux, Switzerland
July 12 – The Vortex Jazz Club London, UK
July 13 – Montreux Jazz Festival 2011 (Quincy Jones Presents: A Night of Global Gumbo with Alfredo Rodriguez TRIO, Emily Bear, Esperanza Spalding, Nikki Yanofsky) Montreux, Switzerland
July 14 – 35 Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Teatro Principal Antzokia) Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
July 15 & 16 – Festival Internacional de Música Castell de Peralada Peralada, Spain
July 17 – Plaza de la Catedral Tarragona, Spain
July 20 – Quincy Jones & The Global Gumbo All Stars @ Festival Castell de Peralada Peralada, Spain

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“Check out this feature in the Spirit Airlines / Southwest Airlines Magazine 40th Anniversary Edition, which highlights Alfredo in an article about 40 emerging new artists. Hope you enjoy!”

To read the complete article, click here.

You can also visit Southwest.com/itunes to download one of Alfredo’s songs for FREE from iTunes.

Alfredo en el proximo Festival Kesse 2011 – Tarragona, Espana

Fragmento: “Entre las primicias del festival destaca el pianista Alfredo Rodríguez, surgido de la potente cantera cubana y que está revolucionando el mundo del jazz.”

Para leer el articulo, visite: Avui.cat

Quincy Jones and The Global Gumbo All Stars – Live in Morocco

The first Global Gumbo Group production, in association with Dawn Elder World Entertainment, will be a concert during Morocco’s annual music festival in May, the Mawazine Festival, which will feature performances by The Global Gumbo All Stars (Patti Austin, Siedah Garrett, Naturally Seven, Greg Phillinganes, Paulinho da Costa, Bassam Saba, Riffat Sultana, Richard Bona, Francisco Mela, Lionel Loueke and Alfredo Rodriguez).

Wednesday, May 25 at 09:45PM

OLM Souissi – Rabat, Morocco

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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Jazz Standard, NYC

Photo credit by Tom Elrich

Alfredo Rodriguez (p)

Ricardo Rodriguez (b)

Tuesday, May 3rd at 7:30 & 9:30 PM

Jazz Standard

For more information visit www.jazzstandard.net

Alfredo Rodriguez “The Bare Necessities” on Disney Jazz!

Alfredo Rodriguez has contributed a version of “The Bare Necessities” to Disney’s new compilation album entitled “Everybody Wants To Be A Cat, Vol. 1″. Other artists that contributed versions of Disney songs include: Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, Dianne Reeves, Roberta Gambarini, the Bad Plus, Mark Rapp, Nikki Yanofsky, Esperanza Spalding, Regina Carter, Gilad Hekselman and Kurt Rosenwinkel.

Click here to open the album in Amazon.

Interview with Chinese Music Journal

Review from “All About Jazz” by George W. Harris Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Vibrato

Excerpt: “By the time of the closing “Transculturation” (from his debut release), with the trio’s aggressive and empathetically percussive interplay, the audience realized that they had witnessed something beyond the ordinary. The piano trio, a long time stalwart of jazz, had been taken to a higher plane this full mooned evening in Bel Air.”

To read the full review, click here.

Review: Quincy Jones’s new protege blows away San Jose crowd – By Richard Scheinin

Excerpt: ”Rodriguez plays as if he eats Chopin and Stockhausen for breakfast. Beyond the conservatory-driven technique, he’s combustibly at home with Afro-Caribbean folk forms and rhythms and has digested the last several decades of jazz piano trio evolution, boiling it all down with acuity.”

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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio – West Coast Tour

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‎”JAZZ ROOTS” Presents: Eddie Palmieri, Michel Camilo and Alfredo Rodriguez @ Festival of the Arts BOCA

Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Akron Art Museum – Ohio

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Umbria Jazz Winter #18 – Review

Excerpt: ”Más alla de la maestría de Corea y Bollani, Umbria repetía con un pianista que, recomendado por Quincy Jones, está tomando al asalto los festivales de todo el mundo (y muy pronto, los de España). Se trata de Alfredo Rodríguez, otro de los increíbles fenómenos musicales que aparecen en Cuba. Fue, sin duda, la sorpresa del festival con sus tres conciertos a trío y un concierto en solitario. Acompañado por Peter Slavov al contrabajo, que ejerce de ancla poderosa, y Francisco Mela a la batería, sorprende la cohesión del trío, la fuerza de su propuesta, el trabajo conjunto de tres músicos que tienen claro que pueden constituirse en una referencia del jazz contemporáneo por su trabajo conjunto.”

To read the full review,click here.

The Quincy Jones Global Gumbo All Stars

Check out the following video of Alfredo performing with the Quincy Jones Global Gumbo All Stars at the 2010 Montreux Jazz Festival!!

Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Detroit Institute of Arts

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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Umbria Jazz Winter # 18 Review

La novità UJW#18 si chiama Alfredo Rodriguez

Alfredo Rodriguez - Photo credit by Michela Rufini

di Lucio Giovannella
foto di Michela Rufini

Come buona tradizione ogni anno UJW ci regala una novità del panorama internazionale del jazz. Quest’anno la sorpresa si chiama Alfredo Rodriguez, giovane pianista sudamericano scoperto dal produttore di fama mondiale, nonché collega di Miles Davis negli anni sessanta, Quincy Jones.

Rodriguez è un vero talento, viscerale sia nelle composizioni che nelle sue performances pianistiche. Nel suo secondo concerto, davanti ad una platea non gremitissima ma molto attenta, il suo trio, formato dal contrabbassista Peter Slavov e dal batterista Francisco Mela, ha sfoderato una prestazione fresca e appassionata, anche se dai toni scuri e introspettivi.

Tre brani originali, presi dal cd “Sounds of space“, con un’introduzione piena di elementi di musica classica e contemporanea che scivola pian piano in un’atmosfera dal sapore latino.

Finale con Rodriguez al piano solo e bis del trio con il brano “ Qbafrica “, composizione in stile latin jazz, che riporta nella sala un senso di euforia tipico della musica del Sudamerica.

Trio straordinario. Concerto di alto livello, un po’ impegnativo nell’ascolto.

Francisco Mela - Photo credit by Michela Rufini

Peter Slavov - Photo credit by Michela Rufini

To read the full review, click here.

Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Umbria Jazz Winter – Italy

Umbria Jazz Winter

For more info visit www.umbriajazz.com

Alfredo Rodriguez @ “Jazz for the Holidays” series! December 14 at Noon! – Los Angeles, CA

Jazz for the Holidays

Come join Alfredo Rodriguez and the Thelonious Monk Institute/LACHSA Ensemble as they play in the “Jazz for the Holidays” music event, presented by Arts Brookfield, on December 14th at 12PM. The free concert will be held in the Ernst and Young Plaza at 725 Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. Hope to see you there!

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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio in Shanghai, China

Alfredo Rodriguez Trio in Shanghai, China

Alfredo Rodriguez Quartet in South Africa

Take a look at some photos from the Alfredo Rodriguez Quartet’s recent trip to South Africa, where they had the chance to play at the birthday party of Phuthuma Nhleko and play with members of the Gauteng Jazz Academy, in Johannesburg!

Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Whitmore Recital Hall Columbia, MO

Alfredo Rodriguez on MOVE Magazine

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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio

Wednesday, Nov.17  at  7 pm

“We Always Swing” Jazz Series – Whitmore Recital Hall

Address: 107 Reynolds Alumni Center – Columbia, MO  USA  65211

Tickets : (573) 449 3001

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Alfredo Rodriguez is featured on Quincy Jones’ latest album , “Soul Bossa Nostra”

Quincy Jones - "Soul Bossa Nostra"

Pre-Order Soul Bossa Nostra Now!

Be among the first to get your copy of Quincy Jones’ New Album! http://tinyurl.com/24yh2ah

For more info visit  www.quincyjones.com

Quincy Jones Presenting the Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ The Jazz Bakery – Los Angeles

Alfredo Rodriguez – piano
Peter Slavov – bass
Francisco Mela – drums

JAZZ BAKERY “MOVABLE FEAST”
THE ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ TRIO
THURSDAY, SEPT. 30^th ONE SHOW  8:30 PM
MUSICIANS INSTITUTE CONCERT HALL
1655 N. MCCADDEN PLACE,
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028

For more info visit www.jazzbakery.com

Alfredo Rodriguez & Yamandu Trio – Brasil

Alfredo Rodriguez & Yamandu Trio - Brasil

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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Jazz Alley – Seattle, WA

Photo credit : Foundation Jazz Art - Krzysztof Wojciechowski

For more info, click the Tour page above. Reservations can be made at www.jazzalley.com or (206) 441 9729

Live! Alfredo Performs with Pasadena Symphony on 8/14

Alfredo @ Umbria Jazz Festival 2010

Excerpt: “Rimarra’ impressa di questo concerto pazzescamente intenso un’immagine molto forte: Alfredo Rodriguez che, nel bel mezzo di un solo giunto al culmine per impulsi ritmici e armonici, improvvisamente fugge dal pianoforte per scaricare una (positiva) tensione emotiva cosi’ alta da non sembrare sostenibile. E’ giovane Rodriguez, appena venticinquenne, ed e’ stato scoperto da Quincy Jones, che lo definisce uno dei suoi migliori artisti. E in effetti lui, il bassista Peter Slavov e il batterista Francisco Mela hanno incantato il pubblico con la loro musica. Alfredo e’ cubano ed e’ un pianista prodigioso, non solo tecnicamente. A Perugia sintetizzando creativamente la sua Cuba, gli appassionati studi classici ed il jazz, ha dimostrato quanto jazz ancora c’e’ da scoprire, per nostra fortuna: intro di note sospese ed indefinite che lasciano disorientati da tanta misurata bellezza, si alternano ad ondate percussive ritmiche e ancora a lirismo (ha suonato “Veinte Anos” e “Quizas” da far commuovere): un mix di istinto e logica musicale, vibrante senza mai strafare, un feeling con il contrabbasso di Slavov (eccezionalmente intenso, prezioso in questo mare di ritmo, poeticita’ e note) e la batteria di Francisco Mela (anche egli cubano, una fantasia sfrenata ma mai eccessiva) che e’ da definirsi quasi magico. Due cubani, un bulgaro naturalizzato americano: artisti che portando profondamente dentro di se’ il proprio mondo hanno potuto arricchire senza paura il loro background con mille sollecitazioni nuove, rafforzando ancora di piu’ la loro identita’ musicale, arricchendo il loro linguaggio per parlare meglio di se stessi. Rodriguez sul suo pianoforte soffre e gioisce, non e’ mai ammiccante e strategico: e’ un virtuoso con l’anima.” To view the full story, click here.

Alfredo in China & World Expo Coverage

Big thank you to John Cappo, Yue-Sai Kan, and Grace Pen (all pictured) who along with Mercedes Benz, Moet Chandon, Brown Sugar, and SMG made Alfredo’s first visit to China a smashing success!

China Daily featured Alfredo in their 2010 Shanghai World Expo coverage for his contribution to the Expo English-version theme song, Better City, Better Life. Alfredo performed the song at the closing ceremony of the 13th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 20. The article dubbed his piano playing as “a moving experience.” To view the full story, click here.

Live In Paris! – Alfredo Rodriguez Trio

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Alfredo Live at Brown Sugar in Shanghai

We’re thrilled to announce Alfredo will be performing at Brown Sugar in Shanghai, China! For more information, please visit www.brownsugarlive.com.

Alfredo Co-Composes Theme for World Expo

Alfredo has co-written a song with Quincy Jones, Tan Dun, and Siedah Garrett that will serve as the theme song for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The song, dubbed “Better City, Better Life” will debut at the Opening Ceremonies of the Expo later this month. To read more as reported by Entertainment Tonight, click HERE.

Alfredo Plays to a Full House in Dallas

Monday evening, Alfredo Rodriguez played to a full house at the Winspear Opera House / AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas. The show was part of Larry Rosen’s “Jazz Roots” series, and also featured famous Latin Pianists Eddie Palmieri and Michel Camilo. The performance was followed by a standing ovation for Rodriguez, who begins his first tour and releases his first album this Summer.

Reminder: TONIGHT in San Francisco!

Don’t forget! Alfredo live in SF tonight at Yoshis San Francisco.
http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artist/show/1089

Alfredo Live in San Francisco

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Tonight At The Highline Ballroom!

Join us tonight in New York for a special show at the Highline Ballroom. Performances by The Alfredo Rodriguez Trio, Jon Batiste Band, Francisco Mela’s Cuban Safari, and McCoy Tyner Trio with Special Guest Gary Bartz. Doors at 6:00 PM and show at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $25.00. To view more information on this event, please click here.

To purchase tickets, please click here.

Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St New York, NY 10011 
between 9th and 10th Ave 
(212) 414-5994

Join Us!

We’re thrilled to announce that on January 26th 2010, Alfredo will be performing at Yoshi’s in San Francisco. Doors open at 8:00 PM. You can buy tickets here. To view details on this upcoming performance, click here. 

Alfredo’s Performance At “Bienvenido Gustavo”

Photo Credit: Lawrence K. Ho, Los Angeles Times / October 3

Alfredo performed to a crowd of 18,000 Angelenos at the Hollywood Bowl for “Bienvenido Gustavo” on Saturday, October 3rd. Mentor Quincy Jones introduced Alfredo as the first performance of the evening. Alfredo performed ‘Crossing The Border,’ and ‘Mazurca en Glissando.’ The event also featured special performances by Herbie Hancock (with the Los Angeles County High School for the Jazz Arts Band), David Hidalgo & Taj Mahal (with Los Cenzontles), Andrae Crouch, and Flea (with the Silverlake Music Conservatory). At the later half of the night, the Expo Center Youth Orchestra performed “Ode To Joy” with Gustavo Dudamel conducting. Finally, Gustavo conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as they performed an exhilarating rendition of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. To read more, click HERE.

Alfredo in the Los Angeles Times

Photo Credit: Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times published a 2-page article about Alfredo on the front page of yesterday’s (Saturday’s) Calendar section! To read the article, click HERE An excerpt from the article is below:

“Now, Rodriguez’s grace under pressure and talent for finding emotional truth in the split-second fall of a piano key has brought him to the verge of an improbable success story. The musician, who turns 24 on Wednesday, will be performing today at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the “¡Bienvenido Gustavo!” concert celebrating Gustavo Dudamel’s arrival as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new music director…[Alfredo] is recording a debut album with Quincy Jones, the Grammy Award-winning composer, producer and musician who discovered Rodriguez at the Montreux Jazz Festival and has become his mentor, teacher and, Rodriguez says, “like a new father” to him… Since moving stateside, Rodriguez has been receiving loud ovations and praise from fellow professionals at such venues as the Monterey and Playboy jazz festivals. Jones says that when he first heard Rodriguez play three years ago “it knocked me on my booty, man!”…Some Los Angeles musical insiders, including Josh Groban and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, got a preview of Rodriguez’s talents during a showcase a couple of months ago at the Vibrato Grill Jazz. In his brief set, Rodriguez demonstrated his elegant yet explosive technique and command of an array of musical idioms.”— Reed Johnson ⋅ October 3, 2009

Mercury News Reviews Alfredo’s Monterey Performance

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Photo Credit: Stuart Brinin Photography

“Young Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez sounds the way Monk might have sounded if he had been born in Chick Corea’s body and raised on a diet of Bach Chopin and Stravinsky in a Havana conservatory.” -Mercury News

Alfredo’s Monterey Jazz Festival Review by Jazz Observer

“It’s not easy to silence the outdoor Garden Stage crowd, but a hush fell over the ground within minutes, and for the next hour the quiet was broken only by enthusiastic applause… and the occasional airplane.” - The Jazz Observer

Review of Alfredo @ Monterey Jazz Festival

“Young Cuban pianist Rodriguez, playing on the Garden Stage in late afternoon, served notice that he is an emerging rising star worthy of note.

His expressive face mirroring his moves on the piano, alternately grimacing, laughing, eyes closed, talking to himself, Rodriguez enthralled a capacity crowd with his prodigious talent.

And for a player with a reputation as a frenetic performer Rodriguez displayed a often-delicate touch, especially on a gorgeous version of the jazz classic “Body & Soul.”
-The Monterey County Herald