About

Bobby Sanabria is a 7-time Grammy-nominee as a leader. He is a noted drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, documentary film maker, and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent born and raised in NY’s South Bronx. He was the drummer for the acknowledged creator of Afro-Cuban jazz, Mario Bauzá touring and recording three CD’s with him, two of which were Grammy nominated, as well as an incredible variety of artists. From Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria (with whom he started his career) Paquito D’Rivera, Yomo Toro, Candido, The Mills Brothers, Ray Barretto, Chico O’Farrill, Francisco Aguabella, Henry Threadgill, Luis “Perico” Ortiz, Daniel Ponce, Larry Harlow, Daniel Santos, Celia Cruz, Adalberto Santiago, Xiomara Portuondo, Pedrito Martinez, Roswell Rudd, Patato, David Amram, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Michael Gibbs, Charles McPherson Jon Faddis, Bob Mintzer, Phil Wilson, Randy Brecker, Charles Tolliver, M’BOOM, Michelle Shocked, Marco Rizo, and many more. In addition he has guest conducted and performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras like the WDR Big Band, The Airmen of Note, The U.S. Jazz Ambassadors, Eau Claire University Big, The University of Calgary Big Band to name just a few.

His first big band recording, Live & in Clave!!! was nominated for a Grammy in 2001. A Grammy nomination followed in 2003 for 50 Years of Mambo: A Tribute to Perez Prado. His 2008 Grammy nominated Big Band Urban Folktales was the first Latin jazz recording to ever reach #1 on the national Jazz Week charts. In 2009 the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra he directs at the Manhattan School of Music was nominated for a Latin Grammy for Kenya Revisited Live!!!, a reworking of the music from Machito’s greatest album, Kenya. In 2011 the recording Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! by the same orchestra under Bobby’s direction was nominated for a Latin Jazz Grammy. Partial proceeds from the sale of both CD’s continue to support the scholarship program in the Manhattan School of Music’s jazz program. Bobby’s 2012 big band recording, inspired by the writings of Mexican author Octavio Paz, entitled MULTIVERSE was nominated for 2 Grammys. His work as an activist led him to fight to reinstate the Latin Jazz category after NARAS decided to eliminate many ethnic and regional categories in 2010. He and three other colleagues actually sued the Grammys which led to the reinstatement of the category. He is an associate producer of and featured interviewee in the documentaries, The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King, winner of the IMAGINE award for Best TV documentary of 2003, and the Alma Award winning From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale where he also composed the score in 2006 and was broadcast on PBS. In 2009 he was a consultant and featured on screen personality in Latin Music U.S.A. also broadcast on PBS. In 2017 he was also a consultant and featured on air personality for the documentary We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo. He is the composer for the score of the 2017 documentary Some Girls. DRUM! Magazine named him Percussionist of the Year in 2005; he was also named 2011 and 2013 Percussionist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. This South Bronx native of Puerto Rican parents was a 2006 inductee into the Bronx Walk of Fame. He holds a BM from the Berklee College of Music and is on the faculty of the New School University and the Manhattan School of Music where he has taught Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestras passing on the tradition while moving it forward. His recording with the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra entitled “Que Viva Harlem!” released in 2014 on the Jazzheads label has received ****1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine.

Mr. Sanabria has conducted hundreds of clinics in the states and worldwide under the auspices of TAMA Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Remo Drumheads, Vic Firth Sticks and Latin Percussion Inc. His background having performed and recorded as both a drummer and/or percussionist with every major figure in the history of Latin jazz, as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of both jazz and Latin music history, makes him unique in his field. His critically acclaimed video instructional series, Conga Basics Volumes 1, 2 and 3, have been the highest selling videos in the history of video instruction and have set a standard worldwide. He is the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center and is part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Academy as well as The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. His latest recording released in July 2018 is a monumental Latin jazz reworking of the entire score of West Side Story entitled, West Side Story Reimagined, on the Jazzheads label in celebration of the shows recent 60th anniversary (2017) and its composer, Maestro Leonard Bernstein’s centennial (2018). Partial proceeds from the sale of this historic double CD set go the Jazz Foundation of America’s Puerto Relief Fund to aid Bobby’s ancestral homeland after the devastation form hurricanes Irma and Maria.

"""Helper to provide extensibility for pickle. This is only useful to add pickle support for extension types defined in C, not for instances of user-defined classes. """ __all__ = ["pickle", "constructor", "add_extension", "remove_extension", "clear_extension_cache"] dispatch_table = {} def pickle(ob_type, pickle_function, constructor_ob=None): if not callable(pickle_function): raise TypeError("reduction functions must be callable") dispatch_table[ob_type] = pickle_function # The constructor_ob function is a vestige of safe for unpickling. # There is no reason for the caller to pass it anymore. if constructor_ob is not None: constructor(constructor_ob) def constructor(object): if not callable(object): raise TypeError("constructors must be callable") # Example: provide pickling support for complex numbers. def pickle_complex(c): return complex, (c.real, c.imag) pickle(complex, pickle_complex, complex) def pickle_union(obj): import functools, operator return functools.reduce, (operator.or_, obj.__args__) pickle(type(int | str), pickle_union) # Support for pickling new-style objects def _reconstructor(cls, base, state): if base is object: obj = object.__new__(cls) else: obj = base.__new__(cls, state) if base.__init__ != object.__init__: base.__init__(obj, state) return obj _HEAPTYPE = 1<<9 _new_type = type(int.__new__) # Python code for object.__reduce_ex__ for protocols 0 and 1 def _reduce_ex(self, proto): assert proto < 2 cls = self.__class__ for base in cls.__mro__: if hasattr(base, '__flags__') and not base.__flags__ & _HEAPTYPE: break new = base.__new__ if isinstance(new, _new_type) and new.__self__ is base: break else: base = object # not really reachable if base is object: state = None else: if base is cls: raise TypeError(f"cannot pickle {cls.__name__!r} object") state = base(self) args = (cls, base, state) try: getstate = self.__getstate__ except AttributeError: if getattr(self, "__slots__", None): raise TypeError(f"cannot pickle {cls.__name__!r} object: " f"a class that defines __slots__ without " f"defining __getstate__ cannot be pickled " f"with protocol {proto}") from None try: dict = self.__dict__ except AttributeError: dict = None else: if (type(self).__getstate__ is object.__getstate__ and getattr(self, "__slots__", None)): raise TypeError("a class that defines __slots__ without " "defining __getstate__ cannot be pickled") dict = getstate() if dict: return _reconstructor, args, dict else: return _reconstructor, args # Helper for __reduce_ex__ protocol 2 def __newobj__(cls, *args): return cls.__new__(cls, *args) def __newobj_ex__(cls, args, kwargs): """Used by pickle protocol 4, instead of __newobj__ to allow classes with keyword-only arguments to be pickled correctly. """ return cls.__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) def _slotnames(cls): """Return a list of slot names for a given class. This needs to find slots defined by the class and its bases, so we can't simply return the __slots__ attribute. We must walk down the Method Resolution Order and concatenate the __slots__ of each class found there. (This assumes classes don't modify their __slots__ attribute to misrepresent their slots after the class is defined.) """ # Get the value from a cache in the class if possible names = cls.__dict__.get("__slotnames__") if names is not None: return names # Not cached -- calculate the value names = [] if not hasattr(cls, "__slots__"): # This class has no slots pass else: # Slots found -- gather slot names from all base classes for c in cls.__mro__: if "__slots__" in c.__dict__: slots = c.__dict__['__slots__'] # if class has a single slot, it can be given as a string if isinstance(slots, str): slots = (slots,) for name in slots: # special descriptors if name in ("__dict__", "__weakref__"): continue # mangled names elif name.startswith('__') and not name.endswith('__'): stripped = c.__name__.lstrip('_') if stripped: names.append('_%s%s' % (stripped, name)) else: names.append(name) else: names.append(name) # Cache the outcome in the class if at all possible try: cls.__slotnames__ = names except: pass # But don't die if we can't return names # A registry of extension codes. This is an ad-hoc compression # mechanism. Whenever a global reference to <module>, <name> is about # to be pickled, the (<module>, <name>) tuple is looked up here to see # if it is a registered extension code for it. Extension codes are # universal, so that the meaning of a pickle does not depend on # context. (There are also some codes reserved for local use that # don't have this restriction.) Codes are positive ints; 0 is # reserved. _extension_registry = {} # key -> code _inverted_registry = {} # code -> key _extension_cache = {} # code -> object # Don't ever rebind those names: pickling grabs a reference to them when # it's initialized, and won't see a rebinding. def add_extension(module, name, code): """Register an extension code.""" code = int(code) if not 1 <= code <= 0x7fffffff: raise ValueError("code out of range") key = (module, name) if (_extension_registry.get(key) == code and _inverted_registry.get(code) == key): return # Redundant registrations are benign if key in _extension_registry: raise ValueError("key %s is already registered with code %s" % (key, _extension_registry[key])) if code in _inverted_registry: raise ValueError("code %s is already in use for key %s" % (code, _inverted_registry[code])) _extension_registry[key] = code _inverted_registry[code] = key def remove_extension(module, name, code): """Unregister an extension code. For testing only.""" key = (module, name) if (_extension_registry.get(key) != code or _inverted_registry.get(code) != key): raise ValueError("key %s is not registered with code %s" % (key, code)) del _extension_registry[key] del _inverted_registry[code] if code in _extension_cache: del _extension_cache[code] def clear_extension_cache(): _extension_cache.clear() # Standard extension code assignments # Reserved ranges # First Last Count Purpose # 1 127 127 Reserved for Python standard library # 128 191 64 Reserved for Zope # 192 239 48 Reserved for 3rd parties # 240 255 16 Reserved for private use (will never be assigned) # 256 Inf Inf Reserved for future assignment # Extension codes are assigned by the Python Software Foundation.