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Bobby Sanabria Big Band: Multiverse

Read "Multiverse" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 9, 2012

Drummer/historian/educator/percussionist Bobby Sanabria is more than the sum of his parts; he's actually the sum of all parts, collected, absorbed and observed over the course of his musical life. The Nuyorican jazz giant is a stylistic sponge, historical repository and bringer of the boom, but he's a true artist above all else. He understands that music is about self expression, tradition, innovation, and the place where all three meet. The pieces that Sanabria presents on Multiverse are ...

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Bobby Sanabria Big Band: Afro-Cuban Dream...Live & In Clave!!!

by Mark Corroto
July 1, 2000

Somebody wrote a lyric to Dizzy Gillespies “Manteca" that repeats the chant “we always go back to Dizzywe always go back." Indeed we do. Gillespies bebop/Cuban music hybrid, cubop, came at the perfect time in New York. Gillespie, who never took credit for the fusion, only for promoting it through his popularity, championed his Chinese music bebop, and Chano Pozo and Mario Bauzas Cuban Rhythms. Fast forward to the 21st centurys mining of Buena Vista Social Club and the popularity ...