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Angelica Sanchez

Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1972. From 1990-1994 she studied piano and composition at Arizona State University. Sanchez moved to New York in 1995 and has since played with: Susie Ibarra, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Trevor Dunn, Mark Dresser, Ed Schuller, Judy Silvano, Greg Tardy, Reggie Nicholson, George Schuller, Jeff Williams, Daniel Carter, Mike Sarin, Tony Moreno, Scott Maclemore, Ben Monder and many more. Sanchez leads her own quartet featuring Tony Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. Her debut recording "Mirror Me“ was chosen as one of the "Best New Releases for 2003" in All About Jazz and made the top ten JazzTimes Critics' Picks list 2003.

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Radio & Podcasts

Angelica Sanchez: Jazz Keys and Nighttime Creatures

Read "Angelica Sanchez: Jazz Keys and Nighttime Creatures" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Today, the Spotlight shines On pianist and composer Angelica Sanchez, who joined us late last year to discuss her latest record, Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic Records).Since moving to New York from Arizona in 1994, Angelica has collaborated with artists including Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, Tim Berne, Ben Monder, and many others.On Nighttime Creatures, Angelica leads a nonet through material she composed while living in a secluded cabin in Upstate New York. There, she was ...

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Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Terry Gibbs/Terry Pollard, David Murray

Read "Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Terry Gibbs/Terry Pollard, David Murray" reviewed by David Brown


This week we work our way through recent record store finds and some new releases. Our featured album is Nighttime Creatures by the Angelica Sanchez Nonet. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:50 McCoy Tyner Trio “Happy Days" from Infinity (Impulse!) 02:30 Horace Silver “The Lady From Johannesburg" from Hard ...

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Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier, Rodrigo Amado & Jeff Cosgrove

Read "Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier, Rodrigo Amado & Jeff Cosgrove" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


There's some great new music coming your way in this edition: Portuguese saxophone powerhouse Rodrigo Amado's Bridge Quartet is free jazz royalty with pianist Alexander Von Schlippenbach, bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten & drummer Gerry Hemingway. Their new album Beyond The Margins is a must-listen. So are new albums from two of the leading pianists around today: Angelica Sanchez (Night Time Creatures) and Sylvie Courvoisier(Chimaera). Drummer Jeff Cosgrove drops two new live saxophone trio albums with Jeff Lederer on one and Noah ...

Album Review

The Angelica Sanchez Nonet: Nighttime Creatures

Read "Nighttime Creatures" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Pubblicato dalla Pyroclastic Records, Nighttime Creatures è il magistrale debutto del nonet della pianista Angelica Sanchez, organico che riunisce alcuni protagonisti della scene musicali di New York, Los Angeles e San Francisco: i sassofonisti Chris Speed e Michael Attias, il clarinettista Ben Goldberg, il cornettista Kenny Warren, il trombettista Thomas Heberer, il chitarrista Omar Tamez, il contrabbassista John Hébert e il batterista Sam Ospovat. Trasferitasi nel 1994 a New York da Phoenix (Arizona), Angelica è parte dell'Exploding ...

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Album Review

Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers

Read "Lightning Dreamers" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The similarities between Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and Sun Ra's Arkestra are numerous. Both leaders travel the spaceways via the technologies available in their time, applied through dynamic rhythm and pulse. For Ra, his sound began when he was an apprentice in Fletcher Henderson's band in the 1940s, and Mazurek's 1990s work revolved around Isotope 217 and the various Chicago Underground (and later São Paulo Underground) ensembles. Both bandleaders were composers of their time, nonetheless they always create music ...

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Angelica Sanchez: Sparkle Beings

Read "Sparkle Beings" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


A famous philosopher once said “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." This is something of a problem for a reviewer. If the music is stunning—unexpectedly so—then the logical thing is to simply write that. But then it is possible to end up end up well out of one's depth. If the rhythm section is Billy Hart and Michael Formanek, well, things simply get better as you go on from there. Angélica Sánchez is a pianist ...

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Brass And Ivory Tales

Read "Brass And Ivory Tales" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman celebrates his 60th birthday with the release of a magnum opus, Brass And Ivory Tales. Recorded over a period of seven years, this nine-volume box set is impressive in both its depth and breath as it matches Perelman with a different piano master per disc. The improvised duets are usually the first documented meeting between the two musicians and the instant and rapidly evolving synergy is fresh and thrilling. Both remarkable and expected is Perelman's ability ...

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Recording

Angelica Sanchez's Solo Piano Debut "A Little House"

Angelica Sanchez's Solo Piano Debut "A Little House"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

Every solo piano album by an improvising artist does not have to be the same as the ones by the rest of the bunch. I've found that some are more the same than others. I've found that Angelica Sanchez's debut in this realm, A little House (Clean Feed 206), is not only not the same, it's charmingly, substantially different. First off she is geared up to play music, not to show her jazz pedigree by playing old standards, bop chestnuts ...

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Firehouse 12 to Present the Angelica Sanchez Quintet December 14th

Firehouse 12 to Present the Angelica Sanchez Quintet December 14th

Source: Improvised Communications

On Friday, December 14th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will conclude its 2007 Fall Jazz Series with a two-set performance by the Angelica Sanchez Quintet. Built around the core collaboration between New York-based pianist/composer Angelica Sanchez and French guitarist Marc Ducret, this project is supported by a Chamber Music America French/American Jazz Exchange Grant. The group, which also features saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey, will stop in New Haven as part of a week-long tour of ...

"In her piano playing as well as her compositions Angelica Sanchez seeks out the lyrical heartbeat within any avant-garde storm." --The New York Times/Chinen

"Sanchez's provocative writing - full of evocative harmonies and open-ended forms showcases her flair for counterpoint and marks her as a formidable talent..." --JazzTimes Magazine

"...introduces a refreshingly unfussy approach to advanced composition.... ...she carries an unforced authority; her virtuosity (not too strong a word) is less solid than fluid, a thing of movement and ease." --Philadelphia City Paper/Chinen

"Sanchez’s piano playing is marked by its fluidity. She plays with tremendous ease and emotional involvement. It’s a refreshing thought that the male-dominated jazz world does have some bright female members with nowhere to go but up." --The Boston Tech/Jeremy Baskin

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

A Monster Is Just An...

Intakt Records
2024

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Lightning Dreamers

International Anthem Recording Company
2023

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Nighttime Creatures

Pyroclastic Records
2023

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Sparkle Beings

Sunnyside Records
2022

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Brass And Ivory Tales

Fundacja Sluchaj
2021

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Melt All the Guns

Self Produced
2021

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Nighttime Creatures

From: Nighttime Creatures
By Angelica Sanchez

Windfall Light

From: How To turn the Moon
By Angelica Sanchez

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