"Bobby Sanabria is equally adept at the swinging big band sounds of drummers Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson along with another boyhood hero, fusion pioneer Billy Cobham and timbale titan Tito Puente."

- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

 

"(Mr. Sanabria) expands the possibilities, moving the sounds of bands like that of (Puente, Machito), with all the heft and intricacy and clave-based dance rhythm, into the harmonically oriented sophistication of current New York jazz players. It's New York up and down, and back and forth across the last century, from the streets to the mambo palaces to the conservatories." 

– Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

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Jazz, Latin-jazz drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator and documentary film producer Bobby Sanabria is considered one of the world’s foremost performers, educator-scholars of la tradición. A Bronx Walk of Fame inductee and winner of numerous awards, he is a multi-Grammy nominated recording artist as a leader and has performed and recorded with a legendary Who’s Who of jazz and Latin music, most notably as the drummer for the legendary Father of Afro-Cuban jazz, Maestro Mario Bauzá. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, he is a professor at The New School University and the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Hall. He is the host of the Latin Jazz Cruise on WBGO FM, the world's leading jazz station. His recent recording is the Grammy nominated Vox Humana (2024) with his Multiverse Big Band giving him a total of 9 nominations. His new recording with his Multiverse Big Band, ARSENIO AND BEYOND (2026) is a tribute to the true Father of mambo and son montuno, the legendary Arsenio Rodriguez.