Bookings: Beijing +86-186-0076-1751
Currently Beijing and San Francisco Bay Area jazz guitarist, Doug Martin, has performed with some of the finest artists on the West coast and abroad including Germany-based gypsy guitarist and composer, Lulo Reinhardt, Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson, gypsy guitarist Mike Reinhardt, guitarist Paul Mehling of the Hot Club of San Francisco, Swedish guitarist Andreas Öberg, Dutch gypsy guitarist Paulus Schafer, French vocalist Jessica Fichot, as well as legendary jazz guitar virtuosos Howard Alden and Mimi Fox.
Guitar Festival in Quindao, China
Xian China Concert with over 500 in the audience!
2017 Voted Best Band in Beijing City Weekend Magazine Beijing
Martini Trio
The Beijing based Martini Trio consists of jazz guitarist Doug Martin (San Francisco, USA), bassist Xu Guangjun, aka E.T., (Tianjin, China), and drummer Claudi Azizaj (Athens, Greece).
Martini Trio 由爵士吉他手Doug Martin (San Francisco, USA),贝斯手Xu Guangjun,也叫E.T.), (Tianjin, China),以及鼓手Claudi Azizaj (Athens, Greece)组成。
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The Hot Club of Beijing is a truly
multi-national ensemble carrying on the tradition of Django Reinhardt's Hot Club of France in
the 1930s
and
1940s. The musicians of this diverse ensemble come from all over the globe including France,
Greece, the
United States and Xinjiang, China, adding their eclectic mix of international flavors to the
gypsy jazz
idiom.
With such a diverse array of musical backgrounds and cultures, the Hot Club of Beijing offers a
truly
unique
sound whether it's hard swinging jazz, hot latin rhythms, fiery gypsy waltzes or elegant
ballads. Let us
play
for you!
info@hotclubofbeijing.com
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing ©The Hot Club of Beijing
"Retro style meets gypsy jazz in Beijing. Hot Club of Beijing, a
five-piece
ensemble
specializing in wild Django Reinhardt-style gypsy jazz. Having now watched them play, I can
safely say
these
guys happen to be the most talented group of expat musicians I’ve ever seen or heard, hands
down!
Seriously,
all swing aficionados, take a knee.
Taking the stage, they let rip into a blend of chanson and swing. Tying complex melodies and
frenetic
rhythms
in a miasma of finger-picked insanity, their jazzy style is unmistakably rooted in Paris rather
than New
Orleans, New York, or Chicago. Rhythm guitarist and vocalist Vince crooned in a lilting
falsetto, while
lead
guitarist Doug traveled the fretboard of his guitar with a lightning fluidity; clarinet player
Toni
soloed
complexly and effortlessly, all the while backed up by the never-faltering rhythm section of
drummer
Claudi
and Pikar on upright bass. On and on they played, and I found myself picked up and thrown about
by the
excitable crowd. The scene was akin to a particularly rowdy Jewish wedding and there was nothing
else
left do
but dance!" ~ style.com 2014
For more information on the Hot Club of Beijing and their gigs, visit The Hot Club of Beijing www.hotclubofbeijing.com. Check them out next time you’re passing through Beijing. Trust me, you won’t regret it.
They sound very good, they have that gypsy soul . . It's nice to hear a good guitarist.
~ >Joe Messina 2x Grammy winner Funk Brother Standing In the Shadows of Motown
2011 Sweet Georgia Brown
"Flight of the Giniker 1/16/11
Written by Doug for his friend Karen Ellis
~"You
can't march off to war in 3/4" and with the excellence of marvelous dancers!
Doug plays with the The San Francisco Mandolin
Orchestra
2011 The Mandolin Orchestra
is a plucked string orchestra with 20-25 members, playing instruments of the mandolin family
(mandolin,
mandola and mandocello), as well as guitar, double bass. The orchestra formed in May, 2005.
2010 Doug on tour with the John Jorgenson Quintet
"Philadelphia Inquirer 2010 Centennial Django
Party":
World Cafe Live is featuring one of the best-known gypsy-jazz bands, the
John
Jorgenson
Quintet and Doug Martin now plays in the Quintet with Grammy winner and three-time
Academy
of Country
Music Guitarist of the Year, John Jorgenson who plays with the Desert Rose Band and
the
Hellecasters, and appeared alongside stars from Elton John to Bob Dylan, Sting to Willie Nelson.
"Django
really was the first guitar hero," says Jorgenson. "Django influenced scores of modern
musicians,
and his influence is heard across many styles of music and guitar playing. Pioneers like country
legend
Chet
Atkins, pop icon and inventor Les Paul, and jazz innovator Charlie Christian were all directly
influenced
heavily by Django and attempted to copy his style and recorded his compositions. They, in turn,
passed
this
along to all of their followers, including Wes Montgomery, Jeff Beck, Clarence White."
Doug Martin is more than a Django disciple: he's a pioneer in the next wave a Djangoistas." ~ Paul Mehling Hot Club of San Francisco
Best New Song Flight of the Giniker
Doug has performed with Bay Area jazz drummer Akira Tana, Fil Lorenz and the Collective West Jazz
Orchestra,
trombonist / composer / arranger Phil Allen, SF jazz guitarist Brandon Robinson, French jazz
guitarist
Sebastien Lanson, Paul Mehling and Le Jazz Hot, Hot Club Pacific, bassist Mike Kenny, Ned
Boynton and
Cafe
American,
bassist Simon Planting, gypsy guitarist Mike Reinhardt, French vocalist Jessica Fichot.
Nicky Almasy
Photography
As well as strait ahead jazz guitar giants Howard
Aldenand Mimi Fox
who says "Doug Martin plays with fire, precision, and creativity
he is part of the new breed of guitarists that are carrying on the Django tradition with such
fervor . . . recommended!"
Doug continues to perform in various contexts playing both strait ahead jazz as well as what has become known today as "gypsy jazz", the style of swing jazz attributed to gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grapelli.
In Europe, Australia and Asia Doug has performed with gypsy guitarist Lulo Reinhardt in his Latin Swing project
San Francisco Bay Area native, Doug Martin, has been playing guitar since age 12. His passion for harmony, composition, arranging, improvisation was developed while studying classical and jazz guitar with his mentors: guitarist Allen J. Brown, pianist Charles “Gus” Gustavson, jazz guitarist Warren Nunes, and well known classical guitarist Charles Ferguson.
Doug Martin is the best best Gypsy jazz guitarist hailing from the Bay Area. No one can touch him technically and no one can match his "Gypsy Cred". He is the real deal. He is the Hot Club sound. ~ Ned Boynton Cafe Americain
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