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Article: Album Review

Bobby Sanabria / Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Kenya Revisited Live!!!

Read "Kenya Revisited Live!!!" reviewed by Alain Londes


2009 is a key year in Latin music education and rediscovery. Kenya Revisited Live!!! is the culmination of Bobby Sanabria's effort to recreate Machito & The Afro-Cubans' defining 1957 masterpiece, Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz (Roulette), under the direction of Mario Bauzá. It's a real bridge between Afro-Cuban music and jazz, featuring the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban ...

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News: Festival

Bobby Sanabria at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Bobby Sanabria at the Aspen Ideas Festival

International percussionist and drummer Bobby Sanabria joins world leaders from all over the globe at The Aspen Ideas Festival, to be held June 29th through July 5th 2009 in Aspen, Colorado. Presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic Magazine the annual event has sizzled up a stimulating and inspiring festival of presentations, lectures, panels, and ...

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News: Recording

CD: Bobby Sanabria

CD: Bobby Sanabria

Bobby Sanabria, Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Kenya Revisited Live! (Jazzheads). Percussionist, leader and Latin music maven Sanabria puts the MSM band through the exhilirating paces of influential music recorded by Machito in 1957. Machito's Kenya is regarded as one of the milestones of Afro-Cuban music. Sanabria and company do it justice in this ...

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News: Music Industry

Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year Serving the Jazz World

Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year Serving the Jazz World

2009 marks another year in the books for the Jazz publicity firm Two for the Show Media. The agency based out of New York welcomed in the New Year with two grammy nominations (Peter Erskine & Arturo O’Farrill) and one Grammy win for Best Latin Jazz CD for “Song for Chico” (Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Sanabria / Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Kenya Revisited Live!!!

Read "Kenya Revisited Live!!!" reviewed by Edward Blanco


In 1957, Cuban band leader, singer and composer Francisco Raul Gutierrez Grillo de Ayala, AKA “Machito," his Afro-Cuban big band, along with co-founder Mario Bauza, Cannonball Adderley and Basie trumpeter Joe Newman, released an album titled Kenya (Roulette), which, at the time, became instrumental in launching the Afro-Cuban or Latin jazz genre. Multiple Grammy nominee Bobby ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Sanabria / Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Kenya Revisited Live !!!

Read "Kenya Revisited Live !!!" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


A full horn section combined with an ensemble of percussionists usually means one thing: Afro-Cuban jazz. Conductor Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra capture the essence of this style of music by paying tribute to a landmark recording.Kenya Revisited Live!!!, originally recorded in 1957 by Machito and his Afro-Cubans, ...

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News: Recording

Bobby Sanabria & the Manhattan School of Music Release Kenya Revisited Live!!!

Bobby Sanabria & the Manhattan School of Music Release Kenya Revisited Live!!!

Bobby Sanabria conducts The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. Fifty years ago Machito & the Afro-Cubans recorded the album which has become an Afro-Cuban jazz masterpiece, Kenya. Now multiple Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria directing the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra takes Kenya into the 21st century with exciting new arrangements and special ...

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News: Recording

Kenya Revisited “Live” Featuring Bobby Sanabria & Candido

Kenya Revisited “Live” Featuring Bobby Sanabria & Candido

THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC & JAZZHEADS RECORDS RELEASE KENYA REVISITED “LIVE” FEATURING BOBBY SANABRIA CONDUCTING THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH SPECIAL GUEST CANDIDO – (NEA JAZZ MASTER) -AN INCREDIBLE RE-WORKING OF AN AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ MASTERPIECE- THIS RECORDING MARKS THE FIRST RELEASE IN A SERIES OF FOUR THAT JOIN FORCES BETWEEN THE ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Manhattan School of Music Jazz Celebrates "Jazz Appreciation Month"

Manhattan School of Music Jazz Celebrates "Jazz Appreciation Month"

BOBBY SANABRIA, Multiple Grammy-nominated drummer & percussionist and the MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA TO CELEBRATE JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH AT DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009 at 7:30 and 9:30 pm CONCERT WILL ALSO COMMEMORATE TITO PUENTE’S BIRTHDAY (b. April 20, 1923) NEA JAZZ MASTER, CANDIDO CAMERO'S BIRTHDAY (b. April 22, 1921) and ...

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Article: Interview

John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand

Read "John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand" reviewed by Marcia Hillman


John di Martino is a New York area based pianist, composer, arranger and Venus recording artist. He is a sought after musical director and is in demand by many singers as an accompanist, having accompanied such singers as Jon Hendricks, Sylvia Sims, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. His talents as a pianist and arranger can be ...


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