Doug Martin Jazz Guitar

2021

Guitar Festival in Quindao, China

2019

Xian China Concert with over 500 in the audience!

2017

2017 Voted Best Band in Beijing City Weekend Magazine Beijing

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2016

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。

2014

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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.

• Lead vocal/rhythm guitar: Vince Vahram
• Lead guitar: Doug Martin
• Clarinet: Toni Moretso
• Double bass: Pikar
• Drums: Claudi

2011

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

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."

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Best New Song Flight of the Giniker

DEFINITION of 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.
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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

Background

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.