Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez

A world music concert bringing together the Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and the Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez, presented at KOKO in London.

Alfredo Rodriguez is a Cuban jazz pianist, born in Havana in 1985, who debuted in 2006 and released his first album, Sounds of Space, in 2012. Pedrito Martinez is a Cuban percussionist, singer and dancer, also born in Havana, in 1973, whose work centres on Cuban rumba and Afro-Cuban folkloric music. A santería priest, he settled in the United States in 1998. Both musicians left Havana for the States, where each drew on a range of influences in his own personal way.

The two have also made music together as a duo, and their first album as a pair, Duologue, was released on Mack Avenue Records. It moves between several moods, covering Cuban classics, original pieces written collaboratively and a number of unexpected choices. Their different backgrounds give the partnership a natural chemistry, which shapes the way they play together.

This evening at KOKO, a venue that hosts concerts and shows in London, brings the duo's world music to the stage.