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Created with mySpace Profile EditorTONY MARTINEZ MUSICPRESSEINFOTony Martínez with his young, excellent band „The Cuban Power“ belongs to the most promising latin jazz and salsa artists and his live concerts are legendary.What „Irakere“ was to the 80ies, „The Cuban Power“ is to the advent of the new millenium. Their amazing concerts and live shows are charismatic, passionate and racy - it is music at the highest stage which is coming directly from the heart of Cuba.Over the past years Tony Martinez and „The Cuban Power“ have participated in many of the most important and famous festivals in Europe, such as: Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Zürich Jazz Festival (Switzerland), North Sea Jazz Festival Den Haag (Holland), Espoo Jazz Festival (Finland), Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen (Germany), Jazz Baltica Festival (Germany), Latino Americano Festival Milano und Verona (Italy), Leverkusener Jazztage (Germany), Seixal Jazz Festival (Portugal), Cyprus Musik Days (Cyprus), Jazz-Sommer Graz (Austria), New Morning Paris (France), Cittanova Festival Novigrad (Croatia), Caliente Festival Zürich (Switzerland), Jazz Festival Lyon (France), Salsational Latin Festival Bern (Switzerland), Salsa Kongress Baila Basel (Switzerland), Salsa Festival Luzern (Switzerland). Due to all these European tours and other musical performances and achievements Tony Martinez has had the opportunity to prove that he and his „Cuban Power“ are actually one of the most world-beating salsa bands, which is a generally acknowledged fact in the world of music. On stage Tony Martinez and “The Cuban Power” create genuine musical fireworks and we look forward to keeping up enjoying these extraordinary performances in the near future.Due to his exceptional talent (being a multiinstrumentalist: alt sax, tenor sax, piano, german flute, a singer, as well as the composer and arranger of his whole musical repertoire) Tony Martinez has in no time gained a name for himself in Europe and the United States and has advanced to being one of the new celebrities in the latin jazz scene. Tony Martinez was signed by Blue Jackel Entertainment in New York, which is one of the most famous labels in the domain of latin jazz and world music.Already his first album of the year 1997 „La Habana vive“received rave reviews from the specialised press. And the famous musician Quincy Jones regards Tony Martinez as being a new legend in the world of music.Also his second album „Maferefun“, which was published in 1999, received rave reviews, as well as several awards. For instance, “Maferefun” was intended to be nominated for the Grammy Award. The AFIM (Association Worldwide of Independent Music Labels) nominated his album, which also was the Indie Award Winner of the year 2000 in the domain of Latin, as the best latin album of the year. Moreover, it was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album of the year by the Jazz Journalists Association. (www.jazzhouse.org). .The third album „Pa’ los bailadores“ will be released within a short time. For the first time Tony Martinez does not present a Latin Jazz album, but a record of dance music which does justice to his reputation as one of the best contemporary salsa composers and performers. “Pa’ los bailadores”- for the dancers -is the birth of a new salsa style. It is a highly explosive mélange of Cuban styles such as salsa, son, timba, rumba, cuban latin jazz and Latin-American rhytms like cumbia and bomba. It is a very powerful album and Tony Martinez is once more proving his extraordinary power as composer and arranger.Tony Martinez Management