Albert Marquès - piano
Ricky Rodriguez - double bass
Zack O'Farrill - drums
Jeremy Smith - cajón
Albert Marquès is a Brooklyn-based composer, pianist and activist from Barcelona. His music blends jazz with influences from flamenco, creating a sound that is rhythmically driven, emotionally direct and deeply personal. At The Jazz Gallery, the quartet will perform Albert’s original music centered on the immigrant experience.
Albert Marquès (b. 1986, Catalonia, Spain) is a composer, producer, educator, jazz pianist, and published author. After three years in Paris, he has been based in New York City since 2011. Marquès is a multi-award-winning musician with an international touring career and nine albums as a bandleader. He is the Music Director of a NYC public middle and high school music program and has been a visiting artist at NYU, UCLA, MSU, Amherst College, Pomona College, The New School and other institutions.
Marquès is known for his groundbreaking music project Freedom First, a collaboration with writer and poet Keith LaMar, who has spent 30 years in solitary confinement on death row in Ohio for a crime he did not commit. Freedom First is the first album in history by an artist on death row and inaugurated Ampl!fy Voices, his ongoing project to create music with people whose stories must be heard, especially those affected by state-sponsored violence and censorship. Marquès’ singles and albums have been featured in international press, radio, and television, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Slate, Le Figaro, El País, Time Out and NPR.
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