Bobby Sanabria’s New CD “West Side Story Reimagined” Aids Puerto Rican Relief Effort

 Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band

“West Side Story Reimagined”
(Jazzheads JH1231)
Street Date: 07/20/2018
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MUSICIANS: 
 

Multiverse Big Band TRUMPETS Kevin Bryan – lead Shareef Clayton Max Darché Andrew Neesley SAXOPHONES David Dejesus- lead alto, soprano, flute Andrew Gould – alto, flute Peter Brainin- tenor, flute Yaacov Mayman – tenor, flute, clarinet Danny Rivera – baritone TROMBONES David Miller – lead Tim Sessions Armando Vergara Chris Washburne- bass FLUTE, PICCOLO Gabrielle Garo ELECTRIC VIOLIN Ben Sutin RHYTHM Bobby Sanabria – musical director, drums, whistle, lead vocals, coro Darwin Noguera – piano Leo Taversa – electric bass Oreste Abrantes – congas, itotele batá drum, coro Matthew Gonzalez – bongo/cencerro, primo bomba drum, Iyá bata, requinto pandereta, ganza, coro Takao Heisho – Cuban guiro macho, Dominican guira, Puerto Rican guicharro clave, okonkolo batá drum, maracas (Cuban and Venezuelan),
shekere, tambourine, cuica, pandeiro, triangle, gong

 

 

Recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in NYC, this exciting new reimagining is West Side Story like you’ve never heard it before as performed by the amazing multi-Grammy nominated 21 piece Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band. This set includes an accompanying 16 page booklet containing rare photographs of Maestro Leonard Bernstein, along with the timeless music of West Side Story featuring the rhythms of various Latin American countries with exciting breaking-down-the-wall instrumental big band arrangements all done through the lens of the Latin jazz continuum.

 

It’s the most ambitious reimagining of the music I have ever heard!”
– Jamie Bernstein

 

Partial proceeds from this special commemorative set will be donated to the Jazz Foundation of America's Puerto Rico Relief Fund. The island has been completely devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria and the government’s response has been less than adequate. What better way to help my ancestral homeland Puerto Rico and its people, than through the music of West Side Story Reimagined. – Bobby Sanabria
 

Upcoming Live Appearances
 
July 26, 2018
Bobby Sanabria & Ascensión 
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 
FREE!!!
 

July 31, 2018
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band 
Co-op City 
Bronx, NY 
7pm, FREE!!!
 

August 10, 2018
West Side Story Reimagined, Bernstein at 100 
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
New York, NY
7pm