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Marta Sánchez, Billy Childs, Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet, The Outskirts
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, vocalists and pianists Dena DeRose and Marta Sánchez; multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer Brian Eaton; pianists Oscar Peterson and Billy Childs; vocalist Catherine Russell; drummer and bandleader Joe Syrian with Motor City Jazz Octet; and The Outskirts.Playlist Teri Thornton “Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" from Teri Thornton Sings Open Highway (the theme from Route 66) (Columbia) 3:12 Dena DeRose “Hold Fast to Your Dreams" from Mellow Tones (HighNote) 6:55 Marta Sánchez ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sánchez: Hitting a Different Note
by Don Ball
Marta Sánchez has established herself as one of the up-and-coming musicians in the jazz field, as evinced by her 2025 DownBeat Critics Poll in the Rising Star Pianist category win. In addition to her prowess on the piano, she is a skilled composer, whose compositions with her quintet over the past decade have shown an intricate capacity for writing for horns and interweaving her piano with the other instruments. In the past few years, she has been paring down her ...
Continue ReadingWebber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate
by Angelo Leonardi
Le sassofoniste Anna Webber e Angela Morris confermano le innovative concezioni orchestrali dimostrate in Both Are True (Greenleaf Music, 2020), con un disco ancor più avvincente, che s'impone tra i migliori dell'anno. L'organico registra pochissime variazioni (le più significativa sono l'ingresso della pianista Marta Sanchez al posto di Marc Hannaford e le assenze della vibrafonista Patricia Brennan e del trombonista Nick Grinder sostituiti rispettivamente da Yuhan Su e Zekkereya El-magharbel). L'organico è costituito dai migliori strumentisti operanti a New York ...
Continue ReadingLudovica Burtone: Migration Tales
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo il debutto del 2020 con Sparks, la violinista friulana attiva a New York presenta un album ampiamente rinnovato nell'organico strumentale e nei suoi componenti. Non c'è più il quartetto d'archi ma un sestetto d'impronta jazzistica e prevalenza femminile, in cui resta solo la pianista Marta Sánchez. I nuovi partner sono Milena Casado al flicorno, Julieta Eugenio al sax tenore, Tyrone Allen II al contrabbasso e Jongkuk Kim alla batteria. Ludovica Burtone spesso interviene come vocalist in unisono al violino. ...
Continue ReadingGrand/Nebbia/Sánchez/Mendenhall/Fernández: Altered Visions
by Mark Corroto
In July 1967, The Beatles released the single “All You Need Is Love," with “Baby, You're a Rich Man" on the flip side. It's not that the quintet performing “Wild Marks," the 33-minute track comprising the entirety of Altered Visions, is covering that Lennon-McCartney anthem. But the music presented here embodies the spirit of the idea that love is all you need. Altered Visions is the inaugural release from Lilailia Records, a label founded by three artists: saxophonists ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void
by Stefano Merighi
Marta Sanchez è una pianista madrilena di stanza a New York, già attiva da un decennio come leader, attualmente anche nel quartetto di David Murray. La sua formazione accademica si respira già nell'incipit di questo bel disco, “I Don't Wanna Live the Wrong Life and Then Die" dove il tocco, la singolare divisione metrica e la saturazione armonica suggeriscono uno stile che dai barocchi si sposta ai contemporanei, senza passare per i classico romantici. Il jazz per Marta ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void
by John Sharpe
For her first leadership date on the Swiss Intakt label, NYC-based Spanish pianist Marta Sanchez returns to the trio format which she last aired way back on her debut Lunas, Soles Y Elefantes (Errabal, 2008). While some may regret the absence of the two-saxophone front line which she has used in the meantime, the overwhelming positive is the greater opportunity she affords herself to step into the spotlight. She does that most assuredly on Perpetual Void, having enlisted a fabulously ...
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