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| Bobby Sanabria's Last Album Recieved Grammy Nomination In 2001, Bobby's mainstream Grammy nominated CD, Live & In Clave!!! took the Afro-Cuban big band jazz tradition into the 21rst century. Now he expands on that tradition with his highly anticipated new release - Big Band Urban Folktales (Jazzheads), nominated on Grammy as Best Latin Jazz Album. Bobby and his virtuosic big band take the music into the future with jaw dropping interpretations of the music of Frank Zappa, Hermeto Pascoal, as well as a variety of other new compositions re-defining the art of the big band and the role of the drummer in jazz. Bobby is featured here as composer, arranger and performs on drums, vibes, marimba and a variety of percussion. Bobby states, “I'm proud to say this recording represents my best work to date. It's an incredible journey for the listener and as Robert Farris Thompson, who wrote the liner notes states; this new CD “...explores an ultimate fusion of jazz, rock, R &B, mambo, samba, bomba, the blues and other fine sounds. It is big band music that treats the world equally with no boundaries, like Mario Bauz, like Don Ellis, like Afrika Bambataa.” The 20 piece ensemble is indeed special as it features an all star cast with virtuosic players like trumpeter Michael Phillip Mossman, trombonists, Joe Fiedler and Chris Washburne and saxophonists Peter Brainin, Ricardo Pons, David Bixler as well as some of the brightest young stars on today's jazz scene. In fact the age range of the ensemble is from 18 to 76!” The awards ceremony will take place on February 10th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and once again will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |