Bobby Sanabria

Bobby Sanabria (born June 2, 1957 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , percussion , arrangement ) with Puerto Rican roots. He is considered an expert in Latin jazz . Six of his albums have been nominated for a Grammy Award .

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Sanabria, whose parents are from Puerto Rico, was born in the South Bronx , where he grew up. At the age of 17 he joined Tito Puente . Between 1975 and 1979 he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Then he founded his group Ascensión . In 1983 he received a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts . In 1992 he was involved as a musician on the soundtrack of the film Mambo Kings . With the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra of Mario Bauzá , he joined the Cosby Show on. He has also worked with Dizzy Gillespie , Mongo Santamaría , Chico Freeman , Paquito D'Rivera , Candido , Ray Barretto , Chico O'Farrill , Francisco Aguabella , Henry Threadgill , Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Marco Rizo, Daniel Ponce , Patato Valdes and Jorge Sylvester , the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the WDR Big Band Cologne , Michael Gibbs , Charles McPherson , Phil Wilson , Randy Brecker , Charles Tolliver , Joe Chambers and John Fedchock . He can also be heard on albums by Carola Gray , Daniel Schnyder , Michael Mossman , Roswell Rudd / Yomo Toro and Chris Washburne.

He has recorded two Grammy-nominated albums with the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra of the Manhattan School of Music , which he leads, Kenya Revisited Live !!! (2009) and Tito Puente Masterworks Live !!! (2011). Sanabria's album Multiverse (2012) was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Latin Jazz Recording and Best Instrumental Arrangement. He was featured in the BBC documentary West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic .

Sanabria teaches Latin Jazz in New York at the Manhattan School of Music and the New School . He has written articles for trade magazines such as Drum and wrote liner notes for various albums. He has composed music for the documentaries From Mambo to Hip Hop - A South Bronx Tale (2007) and Some Girls (2017).

Discographic notes

1993 - ¡New York City Ache! Featuring Tito Puente & Paquito D'Rivera
2000 - Afro-Cuban Dream: Live and in Clave (Grammy-Nomination)
2002 - Bobby Sanabria & ¡Quarteto Aché!
2003 - 50 Years of Mambo: A Tribute to Damaso Perez Prado - Mambo All-Stars Orchestra (Mambo Maniacs; Grammy nomination)
2007 - Big Band Urban Folktales - Bobby Sanabria Big Band (Jazzheads; Grammy nomination)
2009 - Kenya Revisited Live !!! - Bobby Sanabria Conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra (Jazzheads; Grammy nomination)
2011 - Tito Puente Masterworks Live !!! - Bobby Sanabria Conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra (Jazzheads; Grammy nomination)
2012 - Multiverse , Featuring La Bruja & Chareneè Wade (Grammy-Nomination)

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SURNAME	Sanabria, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician (drums, percussion, arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City