David Sánchez (musician)

David Sánchez ( born September 9, 1968 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican musician (tenor and soprano saxophone, flute) of modern jazz and in particular the Latin Jazz.

Life and work

Sánchez played since the age of eight Conga, before switching to saxophone at age twelve. He attended the Escuela Libre de Música in San Juan, where he continued the training and saxophone flute clarinet and studied. In 1986 and 1987 he studied at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras psychology. 1988 his application was accepted at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he studied with Kenny Barron, Ted Dunbar and John Purcell. He also worked in the bands of Danilo Perez, Hilton Ruiz, Claudio Roditi, Paquito D' Rivera and Daniel Ponce. 1989 brought him Dizzy Gillespie in his United Nations Orchestra; he took in 1991 at the Live the Future tour with Miriam Makeba part. He also took with smaller formations Gillespie toured extensively.

After Gillespie's death, he was one of the founding members of Slide Hampton's Jazz Masters, worked in a duo with Eddie Palmieri, with McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes and the SFJAZZ Collective and the " Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra". He also founded his own quintet and was based more and more on his solo career. On the recordings under his own name Roy Hargrove, Tom Harrell, Kenny Garrett and Cassandra Wilson were involved; her albums " Obsesión " (1998), " Melaza " (2000) and " Travesia " (2002), reflecting the rhythmic foundations and often the topics Puerto Rican music, were nominated for a Grammy.

In addition, he has performed with musicians such as Kenny Barron, Jimmy Heath, Jerome Richardson, Hank Jones, Ray Drummond, Elvin Jones, Ray Brown, Charlie Sepulveda, Ryan Kisor, Danilo Perez, Hilton Ruiz and Chucho Valdes. Furthermore, he was involved in recordings by Rachel Z, Kenny Drew Jr., Kip Hanrahan, Charlie Haden, Giovanni Hidalgo, Barbara Dennerlein, Dave Valentin, Arturo Sandoval, Leon Parker and the Mingus Big Band. In 2003 he undertook with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba a European tour in 2004 and accompanied Dee Dee Bridgewater on their world tour Latin Landscapes. He also was with the trio of Pat Metheny on tour.

Sánchez gives workshops and master classes and taught as a visiting professor at the Peabody Conservatory, the Conservatory of Puerto Rico and the School of Music at Indiana University. 2005/ 06 he was Artist -in -Residence at the Music School of Georgia State University. Richard Cook according to which he seeks on his instrument for clarity and complexity, in which he plays with a Rollins -like sound in exceptional overclocking.

Sánchez received the 2004 for his album Coral Latin Grammy the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Disco printing specifications

• Street Scenes 1996
• Obsesión 1998
• Melaza (Columbia, 2000) with Hans Glawischnig
• Travesia (Columbia, 2002)
• Coral ( Columbia, 2004) with the Prague Symphony Orchestra
• Cultural Survival (2007)

Lexigrafische entries

• Ian Carr and other jazz Rough Guide Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X
• Richard Cook Jazz Encyclopedia London 2007; ISBN 978-0-141-02646-6
• Wolf Kampmann, Loeb Classical Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart, Reclam, 2003; ISBN 978-3150105283
• Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3-499-16513-9