BOP STOP is excited to welcome back multi-GRAMMY nominated musician Bobby Sanabria. Renowned for his virtuosity as a leader from small group to big band and hailed as “... a force of nature ...” by Downbeat Magazine the multi-Grammy® nominated NYC based composer, arranger, drumming legend comes to the Bop Stop to perform with fellow virtuosos JACKIE WARREN on piano and KIP REED on bass for an exciting evening of music that breaks down the barriers between jazz, Latin and World music.

Tickets for tonight are $25 each (a $2 per ticket processing fee will be added to your purchase).

This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Youtube Channel at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band.

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A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, master drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, documentary film producer, activist, radio host, writer, and multi-Grammy®-nominated as a leader, Bobby Sanabria is a native Nuyorican son of the South Bronx. His versatility as both a drummer and percussionist has become legendary. He has performed and recorded with every major figure in the history of Latin jazz, jazz, and salsa, including such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Eddie Palmieri, Paquito D'Rivera, Candido, Charles McPherson, Larry Harlow, Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, and the Father of Afro-Cuban jazz, Mario Bauzá as his drummer for nine years, touring and recording on his major Grammy®-nominated albums. Bobby is the leader of Quarteto Aché, Sexteto Ibiano, Ascensión, and his Multiverse Big Band. His big-band albums have all been nominated for Grammys® for a total of nine: including Afro-Cuban Dream: Live & In Clave!!!, Big Band Urban FolkTales, Multiverse (double Grammy nominated), and West Side Story Reimagined (also awarded the Jazz Journalists Record of the Year Award for 2019 and hailed as a masterpiece by the Wall Street Journal), as well as Kenya Revisited Live!!! and Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! with Bobby conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. His most recent critically acclaimed double CD, VOX HUMANA, recorded live with his Multiverse Big Band at Dizzy’s (NYC), featuring vocalists, Janis Siegel, Antoinette Montague and Jennifer Jade Ledesna, was nominated for a Grammy® for Best Latin Jazz Album 2024.

DRUM! Magazine named Bobby Percussionist of the Year (2005); he was named Percussionist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2011 and 2013. He has been named one of the top ten percussionists in the world by the readers and critics of Downbeat magazine for the last ten years and is a member of Max Roach's legendary percussion ensemble, M'BOOM. Mr. Sanabria has composed the music for the award winning, critically acclaimed productions: From Mambo to Hip Hip: A South Bronx Tale (2006) where he was also a producer, consultant and on air personality; Some Girls (2017); and La Madrina: The Savage Life of Loraine Padilla (2020). Other documentaries he has been featured in on screen and acted as a consultant, producer are, The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King (2003), Latin Music U.S.A. (2006), We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo (2015), and Let's Get The Rhythm 2016). In 2012 Maestro Sanabria was selected by legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock to represent Latin jazz with his Quarteto Ache' as part of the first Annual UNESCO International Day of Jazz at the United Nations.

His numerous awards include induction into the 2006 Bronx Walk of Fame, the 2018 Jazz Education Network's LeJENS of Latin Jazz Award, and a recognition of his work and contributions was read into the U.S. Congressional Record by Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio in 2008. In 2019 he was named Godfather/Padrino of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. He was recently bestowed with an Honorary Doctorate by Lehman College in New York, is on the faculty of New School University (his 28th year), is the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center/Bronx Music Hall, and hosts the weekly Latin Jazz Cruise radio show on WBGO FM (wbgo.org), America’s leading jazz station. For twenty years, he has been the Artistic Director/Artist-In-Residence for Cleveland’s Roberto Ocasio Latin Jazz Camp, the only resident music camp in the country solely dedicated to high-school instrumental students’ study and performance of the Latin-jazz genre.

Bobby Sanabria’s lifetime dedication to spreading the history and culture of jazz and Latin jazz to the general public as a performer, as well as educating a new generation of players, composers, arrangers, has no parallel.

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