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New Jazz & Blues Adult Contemporary Music
Jazz,
Blues, Funk, & Rap
Playing Festivals, Club dates, Industrial Shows, Dinner Shows, Private
Parties, & Weddings
From the Jazz Trio to the full Show Band, tell us what you need.
Richard Martinez & The Renown Sound™
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Contact Richard Martinez:
Phone - 214.315.9112
E-mail - rbscatman@yahoo.com
- To book the band, Click the Booking link at left and fill out the form
provided.
We will contact you ASAP with a Price Quote and our availability.
- Click on Music Store link at left to purchase "One Eye Open" CD's or
Downloads.
We thank you for coming to the Official Renown Sound website and hope you
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| Richard has been playing music in the Dallas area since 1982 and doing
business as The Renown Sound since 2005. “I remember as a
young boy watching Louis Armstrong and his band on the TV.
I was amazed at
the sounds that Mr. Armstrong and his band produced. The first day my dad
and I came home with my first trombone, I went to my bedroom and didn't come
out until I played "The Saints Go Marching In". I'm not sure if the rest of
the family could hear the same thing I heard, but it was Saints to me. From
that day on I was hooked on jazz music. My parents listened to the great
artists of the time, and I was exposed to the great singers like Frank
Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, and great
instrumentalist like J.J . Johnson, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Count Basie,
Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. I remember learning songs from
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass as a young boy.
 When I got to North Texas State University in 1974, I met life-long friends
that were eager to share their knowledge of great jazz & blues music. It was
there that I discovered Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane,
Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Maynard Ferguson, Karl Fontana, Lambert
Hendrix & Ross, Singers Unlimited,
Manhattan Transfer, Weather Report, Bill Watrous.
In 1982 I met Bnois King in Dallas, TX in a jazz room called Tim Ballard's
Artist & Tapestry. Bnois is and was an incredible jazz guitarist, then I
heard him play and sing the blues and what I heard changed me forever. I
began to look for the Blues Rooms in Dallas. The first blues room I found
was a place called The Nash Street Pub.
There I met Little Joe Blue and my love affair with the blues began. The
Juke Box was filled with the blues from the masters of the blues like Muddy
Waters, Albert King, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Albert Collins,
Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaugn, Luther Allison,
Little Milton, Room Full of Blues and KoKo Taylor.
I went on in the 90's to tour internationally with Lucky Peterson and
Bernard Allison.
It gives me great pleasure to share my thoughts and music with
you. I hope you find the site easy to use, and visit often to see what's
going on. I am always interested in your ideas and comments, so tell me what
you think!
Richard
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Richard Martinez; Singer, Song Writer and "Player of the Brass instruments"