David Sánchez (musician)

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David Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor at age 12. He graduated from a performing arts high school in 1986, spent a year studying psychology, and then moved to New York in 1988, having decided to become a musician. Sanchez attended Rutgers University, studying with Kenny Barron, Ted Dunbar, and John Purcell. After a period freelancing in New York with many top Latin players (including Paquito D'Rivera and Claudio Roditi), Sanchez joined Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra in 1990, also getting the opportunity to play with Dizzy's small group. Since then he has toured with the Philip Morris SuperBand, recorded with Slide Hampton and his Jazz Masters, Charlie Sepulveda, Kenny Drew, Jr., Ryan Kisor, Danilo Perez, Rachel Z, and Hilton Ruiz, and headed his own sessions for Columbia Records. David Sanchez is a tenor player whose music mixes together Afro-Caribbean rhythms with advanced bebop on releases like 'Sketches of Dreams' (1994) 'Street Scenes' (1996). 'Obsession' (1998), 'Melaza'(2000), '"Travesia"' (2002) and the Latin Grammy Award Winning '"Coral"' (2004).