简介： by Scott YanowDavid Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor at age 12. He graduated from a performing arts hi 更多>
by Scott YanowDavid Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor at age 12. He graduated from a performing arts high school in 1986, spent a year studying psychology, and then moved to New York City in 1988, having decided to become a musician. Sanchez attended Rutgers University, studying with Kenny Barron, Ted Dunbar, and John Purcell. After a period freelancing in New York with many top Latin players (including Paquito DRivera and Claudio Roditi), Sanchez joined Dizzy Gillespies United Nation Orchestra in 1990, also getting the opportunity to play with Dizzys small group. Since then he has toured with the Philip Morris SuperBand, recorded with Slide Hamptons Jazz Masters, Charlie Sepulveda, Kenny Drew, Jr., Ryan Kisor, Danilo Perez, Rachel Z, and Hilton Ruiz (among others), and headed his own sessions for Columbia. David Sanchez is a tenor player whose music mixes together Afro-Cuban rhythms with advanced bebop on releases like 1994s Sketches of Dreams and 1996s Street Scenes. Obsession followed two years later and Melaza in mid-2000.
