Alfredo Rodriguez, steps away
Alfredo Rodriguez and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this seemingly magical fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series in order to make all artists potential curators and discoverable within a handful of steps from everywhere on the planet. It works like this:
I RECOMMEND people (do you?)Alfredo Rodriguez & degrees of proximity
Why again is Alfredo Rodriguez mere steps away from other artists in here, and by extension, most everybody on the planet???
WHO CURATES "I RECOMMEND" ABOVE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: The Matrix via ↴
Artist & Where
- Name: Alfredo Rodriguez
- City/Place: Brooklyn, New York
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Havana, Cuba
Life & Work
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Bio:
Alfredo Rodríguez is a 32 year old pianist born in Havana, Cuba. Classically trained as a boy, at 15 he heard a recording of Keith Jarett's The Köln Concert, and his life was changed.
Selected to play the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival, he was invited to a gathering at the house of Claude Nobs, who asked him if he would play for Quincy Jones. He played his own arrangement of "I Love You", a Cole Porter tune, and Mr. Jones told Mr. Rodríguez he wanted to work with him.
But it wasn't a magic carpet ride to recognition. Alfredo defected from Cuba, travelling to Mexico in 2009. He waded across the Rio Grande with a suitcase containing nothing but several T-shirts and his compostions. He was arrested by border police, and when questioned told them truth: He was here to work with Quincy Jones and start a career. He was eventually put into a cab and sent on his way.
Re: Alfredo's record Sounds of Space... "The original title comes from a quote about music by José Martí, a Cuban writer and poet whose work has really touched me and influenced my work," explains Rodríguez. "Unfortunately, it didn’t sound as good in English as a title, so we chose a different tack. But Marti’s line says it all: 'Lo verdadero es lo que no termina: y la música está perpetuamente palpitando en el espacio.' That which is true never ends, and music is perpetually beating in space."
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
FOR BOOKING INQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT:
MYLES WEINSTEIN: MYLES@UNLIMITEDMYLES.COM
RORY TRAINOR: RORY@UNLIMITEDMYLES.COM
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: alfredomusic
- ▶ Instagram: alfredormusic
- ▶ Website: http://www.alfredomusic.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_f5PtifImux6A1NHM1GhWA
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC_rI5fzOOi9lA8dGr8VVTzw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1qT4VIssQ5lvkESqkWo5Y3
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1SW7WYNVqXh4BXJFkfWJTj
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/1e2GBOtPyLu7iuNm4EvFKG
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/3iTFKhvhWWigrLV50G9pAF
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/2xLsAl040XtcZhWJSrg8nu
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/2McxuIUHhG8ndD99wCYDcQ
ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
