“Rebecca Martin, Twain: The vocalist Rebecca Martin‘s last album was a collection of standards, recorded only with a saxophonist (Bill McHenry) and a bass player, Larry Grenadier. Think of Twain as a sequel of sorts: It’s a program of mostly originals, backed only by Grenadier, who is also her husband. As a singer, she has a sense of nuance […]
Singer/Songwriter and Jazz vocalist Rebecca Martin’s new album TWAIN features a dozen new original compositions and one classic interpretation, all performed in understated acoustic arrangements based around Martin’s indelible voice and supple guitar work, and the subtly inventive support of her husband and longtime collaborator, acclaimed bassist Larry Grenadier. Martin reflects “My records over […]
TWAIN The new album by Rebecca Martin featuring Larry Grenadier on the Sunnyside Record Label Produced by Pete Rende Available Nationwide on Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 To be serviced or for any press inquires contact Patrice Fehlen at September Gurl PR 718/768-3859 patrice@septembergurl.com
Follow this LINK to sign-up for the Tillery Master Class Series in Boston, MA. TILLERY, a group that features a collaboration between Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, has organized an entire weekend of master classes in the financial district of Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, December 1st and Sunday, December 2nd, 2012. Participants will have the […]
Singer Rebecca Martin and bassist Larry Grenadier will perform at the Jazz Gallery in New York City on November 6th, 2012 (their last in a residency series) and then at Jazz at the Atlas in Washington DC (in The Paul Sprenger Theatre) on Wednesday, November 7th 2012. The duo, whose recently recorded album Twain will be released in March, 2013 on Sunnyside Records will […]
Through the open window of the stars unknown winds blow in. Songs dwell, incomprehensible, in the rude and beautiful language of your need. Irresistible words scatter themselves all around you. Your sweet rough trouble contacts me, amazes me. The elements of your character: Birds, winter, bare trees, a branch for me to sit in, and light, so much light. Aching, shuddering light. […]
NEW YORK TIMES: As jazz singers go, Rebecca Martin exudes the plainest sort of poise, almost radical in its utter lack of flash. She appears here in the sparsest but most companionable of settings: backed only by her husband, the fine bassist Larry Grenadier. They’re playing a residency, one night a month through next month, […]
Singer Rebecca Martin and bassist Larry Grenadier continue their monthly residency at New York City’s Jazz Gallery through November 2012. The duo, whose recently recorded album Twain will be released in January 2013 on Sunnyside, will perform at the Gallery on September 7, October 16, and November 6. They will perform two sets of original compositions and standards […]
Singer Rebecca Martin and bassist Larry Grenadier have confirmed a monthly residency at New York City’s Jazz Gallery from August through November 2012. The duo, whose recently recorded album Twain will be released in January 2013 on Sunnyside, will perform at the Gallery on August 3, September 7, October 16, and November 6. They will perform two sets […]
Alex Dutilh of Radio France had this to say about Rebecca and Larry’s performance in Montreal: “The pleasure of creative festivals: find what is expected where not expected, and vice versa. For example on Tuesday evening July 3, after an exuberant James Carter and his organ quartet at Club Soda, I was spinning away from […]
