MARC AYZA

Born in Barcelona, Marc Ayza has been actively performing on Spanish scene for a decade. He has worked with Raynal Colomo, Perico Sameato and Victor de Diego groups, collaborated with foreign coryphées such as Antonio Hart, Mulgrew Miller, Sheila Jordan, Steve Kuhn, Seamus Blake, etc. Currently, the drummer leads Beat’a’Boom, project involving DJ Helios and rapper BluRum 13. One of the most active Spanish jazz drummers Marc Ayza formed this unorthodox group in 2008 with an aim to combine jazz and hip hop. That is drummer’s ‘natural habitat’, where he is able to project his special knack for rhythm, as well as musicality and hypnotising element. Marc’s group plays genuine and involving music, spontaneously jazzy and full of allusions into styles of black music icons such as Gil Scott Heron to Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, John Coltrane to J Dilla and modern hip hop. Offering, the group’s first album released in 2008, received read more...