David Sánchez Album Turns Up the Heat

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Concord Records will release Cultural Survival May 20 from saxophonist David Sánchez. With this, his eighth overall album and Concord Picante debut, Sánchez merges a straightahead jazz with African, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean influences. The eight-song album features a new direction for Sánchez as he incorporates a guitar in the piano-less quartet. Sánchez recruited Lage Lund, the winner of the Thelonious Monk Guitar Competition in 2005.

In addition to seven original compositions, Sánchez includes a cover of “Monk’s Mood.”

Sánchez will be touring throughout the U.S. in support of the album. On May 16, Sánchez will kick-off the tour by playing a double bill with Danilo Perez in Chicago and on June 13 he will be in San Francisco.

More info: davidsanchezmusic.com



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