09/17/2025
🥁 Latin Jazz Magic 🥁
Multiple Grammy-nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria fuses Latin rhythms, jazz mastery, and pure energy with Tres Magos. This set will have you moving to the beat and feeling the fire.
BOBBY SANABRIA: Nine-time Grammy-nominee as a leader and inductee into the Bronx Walk of Fame, Bobby Sanabria is a force of nature. The New York Times declares, “He can turn on a dime from a surging Bop to an infectious Cuban Songo, from delicate waltz time swing to a lively Mambo to Trinidadian Soca.” The master drummer, percussionist, educator, composer, arranger, bandleader, and film maker of Puerto Rican descent was born and raised in the South Bronx. His impressive resume includes stints with legends Mongo Santamaria, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Barretto, Henry Threadgill, Chico O’Farrill, Randy Brecker, M’BOOM and the Father of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mario Bauzá. Sanabria is an associate producer of, and featured interviewee in numerous award-winning documentaries including The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King and From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale. He’s a professor at the New School University and formerly the Manhattan School of Music, NYU and his alma mater, The Berklee College of Music. Sanabria is also co-artistic director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center and host of The Latin Jazz Cruise on WBGO. He’s recorded over 100 albums as a sideman and his latest recording as a leader is the Grammy nominated Vox Humana featuring his Multiverse Big Band and vocalists Antoinette Montague, Janis Siegel, and Jennifer Jade Ledesna.
🕒 Performance Time: 7:15pm-8:00pm
📅 18th Annual OSPAC West Orange Jazz Festival - September 20th, 2025 (1pm-8pm)
📍 OSPAC (4 Boland Drive - West Orange, NJ)
🎟️ https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/pvpospac/west-orange-jazz-fest-1178339553
*JazzFest logo created by Monet Sheard*
