Bobby Sanabria & Ascension

Musician Bobby Sanabria is a New York institution and a musical polymath. In addition to his considerable rhythmic skills, he is also a bandleader, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, and documentary filmmaker. He is one in a long line of Nuyorican (New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent) musical innovators that brought the city's Latin jazz scene to an international audience. Sanabria is a seven-time Grammy nominee for albums such as 2004's big-band outing 50 Years of Mambo: A Tribute to Perez Prado and Big Band Urban Folktales in 2007 -- the first Latin jazz CD t...