Joe Martin

Joe Martin is one of the most in demand jazz bassists of his generation. Since moving to New York City in 1994, his supportive, lyrical and harmonically inquisitive playing has led to an expansive body of work with many of today’s most influential musicians including Mark Turner, Gilad Hekselman, Chris Potter, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. His performing and recording credits include Andy Bey, Anat Cohen, Donald Fagen, Al Foster, John Ellis, Joel Frahm, Larry Goldings, Billy Hart, Kevin Hays, Dave Kikoski, Michael Leonhart, Brad Mehldau, Mingus Big Band, Jane Monheit, Rudy Royston, Jerome Sabbagh, Edward Simon. He appears on dozens of records as a sideman, notably Turner’s Lathe Of Heaven, Return From The Stars, Live At The Village Vanguard, Potter’s grammy nominated The Dreamer Is The Dream, Rosenwinkel’s The Remedy, Intuit, Hekselman’s This Just In, Homes, SplitLife, and Hearts Wide Open. A bandleader in his own right, he performs regularly at NYC clubs including the Village Vanguard, Jazz Gallery, and Smalls. As a leader he has released three albums of original material. His most recent album Étoilée (w/Mark Turner, Kevin Hays, Nasheet Waits) received much critical praise: “The whole Quartet is remarkably simpatico...an ideal blend of stylistic variety and artistic consistency” 4 stars-Downbeat Magazine. His other recordings as a leader are Not By Chance (2009) with Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, Marcus Gilmore, and Passage (2002) with Turner, Hays, and Jorge Rossy.