I’ve known Pedro for a while now. We met through the scene here in Barcelona. I think I met him first at a jam session at the Harlem Jazz Club, which we host every so often. I asked him if he would like to play on a few tracks on our album Green in Blue and he obliged and did an amazing job. My favourite of the tracks he played on is Being Green. Check that out below.
We have always kept in touch and sometimes we managed to play together over the years with the full five piece featuring Pedro on the saxophone. It’s a joy to play with him, I learn so much from it. Not only is he a great player but he’s just an all round nice guy.
Over the years I have wanted to play more jazz standards and the first person I go to when I have an opportunity is Pedro. When I started my Youtube video project, Mr. Shingles Featuring…, Pedro was the first one I called. We managed to record a nice version of Alone Together with Irish bassist David Duffy, which you can check out here.
The last year’s diffulties have not made it easy for us to play together so I thought it would be a nice idea to a Zoom Concert with him. I for one, was itching to do some new stuff with him. I asked him to choose some jazz standards we could do together and in the end we came up with Invitation and Bye Bye Blackbird, two easy enough numbers for me to handle at my level of playing ;). I came across a nice version of Ivitation by Dexter Gordon, it’s a bossa and I’m always into doing latin stuff. I also learned the words for Bye Bye Blackbird, so we played around with that too.
After that it was easy to make up the trio with Marco Boi, as he has a long history in the jazz scene here. Here are a few tracks from the session. Hope you enjoy:
