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David Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor at age 12. He from a performing arts high school in 1986, spent a year studying psychology, and then moved to New York City in 1988, having decided to become a musician. Sanchez attended Rutgers University, studying with <a href="spotify:artist:3LvX4UVIfEjsQVqrbBToQ3" data-name="Kenny Barron">Kenny Barron</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5UjEzMlPNdJv2UthkvGKBe" data-name="Ted Dunbar">Ted Dunbar</a>,, also getting the opportunity to play with <a href="spotify:artist:5RzjqfPS0Bu4bUMkyNNDpn" data-name="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>'s small group. Since then he has toured with the Philip Morris SuperBand, recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:1JrZuQYlOzhNj1nvlB0Yys" data-name="Slide Hampton">Slide Hampton</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2L3fjADwHOMIjGSiZE4coV" data-name="Charlie Sepulveda">Charlie Sepulveda</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6n3OyWpxLj7nmyFe2NDkmR" data-name="Kenny Drew Jr.">Kenny Drew Jr.</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5xPZyHgmLYsNiG3GI8ESEk" data-name="Ryan Kisor">Ryan Kisor</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6nPiCm3jwXHrOsMbTDoc4E" data-name="Danilo Perez">Danilo Perez</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2NOT7eCzu06BIK7DGjFYK0" data-name="Rachel Z.">Rachel Z.</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7uUrPQUnxCoQusOAh5I0D1" data-name="Hilton Ruiz">Hilton Ruiz</a> (among others), and headed his own sessions for Columbia. David Sanchez is a tenor player whose music mixes together Afro-Cuban rhythms with advanced bebop on releases like 1994's Sketches of Dreams and 1996's Street Scenes. Obsession followed two years later and Melaza in mid-2000. Since that time, Sanchez has kept busy releasing Travesía in 2001, Coral in 2004 and Cultural Survival in 2008. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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