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Barney McAll: One to Watch
by AAJ Staff
This interview was first published in 2001. All About Jazz: First, if you don't mind, tell me some other biographical details (where did you study?) Barney McAll: I was born in Melbourne Australia. I started playing piano at seven years old. My older brother John, was very influential on me ...
Candido: Fountain of Youth
by AAJ Staff
By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...
Kenya Revisited - 50th Anniversary Concert
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA directed by BOBBY SANABRIA with special guest, NEA Jazz Master, CANDIDO CAMERO on congas Recorded in December of 1957 by The Machito Afro-Cubans and released in 1958 featuring alto saxophone titan Cannonball Adderley, as well as trumpet legend Joe Nuemann, and conga virtuoso Candido, the ...
Percussionist Bobby Sanabria Interviewed at AAJ
Bobby Sanabria is a living museum of Afro-Cuban music. Sanabria is a percussionist, drummer and educator who is at the forefront of Afro-Cuban music--particularly the frontier where it intersects with jazz. In 2007, Sanabria released Big Band Urban Folktales (Jazzheads, 2007), an album he says takes the music “beyond the 21st century." Jason Crane, AAJ contributor ...
Bobby Sanabria: Afro-Cuban Storyteller
by Jason Crane
Bobby Sanabria is a living museum of Afro-Cuban music. Sanabria is a percussionist, drummer and educator who is at the forefront of Afro-Cuban music—particularly the frontier where it intersects with jazz. In 2007, Sanabria released Big Band Urban Folktales (Jazzheads, 2007), an album he says takes the music “beyond the 21st century." Jason Crane, AAJ contributor ...
Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales
by Martin Longley
Born in the Bronx and hailing from a Puerto Rican background, percussionist Bobby Sanabria has mastered every conceivable form of AfroLatin music, from New York salsa to Cuban son and even down to Brazilian samba. This album comes across as a demonstration record for everything that he and his thrilling big band can accomplish.
Big Band Urban Folktales
Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2007
Track listing: 57th St. Mambo; Pink; Since I Fell For You; D Train; El Lider; El Ache De Sanabria En Moderacion; Besame Mucho; The Crab; O Som Do Sol; Blues For Booty Shakers; The Grand Wazoo; Obrigado Mestre.
Two for the Show Media & Jazzheads Records Are Pleased to Announce Bobby Sanabria's Big Band 2008 Grammy Nomination
Best Latin Jazz Album: Big Band Urban Folktales (Jazzheads Records) “Sanabria is not just a drummer but a historian, indeed one of the few authorities in the history of the crossover between jazz and Latin forms. It's all there, and you learn something as you listen." --Ben Ratliff The New York Times ...
Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales
by Michael P. Gladstone
In the wake of the disappearance of many of the Afro-Cubanjazz big bands of the late twentieth century like Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria, Chico O'Farrill, Tito Puente and Mario Bauza, drummer/percussionist Bobby Sanabria heads up a twenty-piece band that fills that gap quite nicely. A native New Yorker, Sanabria graduated from the Berklee College ...
Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales
by Jerry D'Souza
Bobby Sanabria's concept of jazz is freedom. There is no arguing that point of view given the evidence he presents on this recording. Sanabria finds this freedom in many avenues. It comes from his students and it filters through the musicians with whom he has forged relationships over the years. It springs from the bands he ...
