Eddie Martinez Guitarist
By inessa the great session guitarist has a new album of his own.
Eddie martinez guitarist. The framed gold and platinum albums represent just a fraction of the music industry awards presented to eddie martinez. Featured new releases. The best of nona hendryx. Martinez s professional music career began in the 1960s and continues today.
His mature style draws from classical traditions of still life portrait and allegorical narrative painting but filtered through coarse brushwork bold contours and semi abstraction. Guitar electric dobro mandolin rattle bass. New york session us american rock jazz guitarist. Eddie martinez talks to inessa.
He has recorded and toured with dozens of musicians representing numerous styles including rock jazz rap and r b but he is probably best known for work he did. Nneena freelon scott sawyer trio session musician. Originally published december 16 2018 until the current troubles are over and we can go back to our musical lives omn is bringing. The guitarist composes a perfect music man cave.
Over a 30 year career session and touring pro eddie martinez has performed with artists as disparate as mick jagger lou reed tina turner robert palmer celine dion and run d m c. He recorded a single solo album called no lies with the help of bernard edwards of chic as a producer. Guitar god in our midst. One wall of this contemporary condo shimmers with precious metal glitz.
It was a rap track and the music was very sparse at first martinez recalls. Find eddie martinez credit information on allmusic allmusic. Eddie paul martinez is an american guitarist born and raised in new york city and of puerto rican ancestry who mainly performs as a session musician. Recording artists who have commissioned briggs guitar builds.
Eddie talks with inessa ty hitzemann and wayne anderson. Find eddie martinez credit information on allmusic. In 1983 new york guitarist eddie martinez got a call from an old friend producer larry smith to come down to greene street recording in soho to play guitar on a session he was overseeing. A deep musical dive audio.
Eddie martinez s artistic career arguably began during the house painting jobs of his youth during which he preferred doodling to the task at hand. Involved with david lee roth run d m c robert palmer meat loaf jim steinman etc. Guitarist vocalist for 24 7 spyz session musician. Hailing from new york city guitarist eddie martinez spent decades as one of rock s premier session and touring players lending an emotive blues inflected touch to several broadly successful records by the likes of patti labelle steve winwood david lee roth and.
But whatever stylistic avenue he s called upon to navigate his credo is always the same.