Composer, pianist, improviser, band leader and educator Angelica Sanchez discusses her early training in Arizona, her family support, development and current projects. She talks about her recording with Marilyn Crispell and her release Nighttime Creatures — one of DownBeat's Best Albums of 2023. During the program we have the opportunity of hearing her duo with Marilyn, an excerpt from the acclaimed Sparkle Beings release as well as music from Nighttime Creatures.
“The stalwart avant-garde pianist…..letting melodies explode in her hand and locking in — closely but not too tightly — with (Billy) Hart’s drums.” The New York Times (Sparkle Beings, Best Jazz Albums of 2022)
“(Sanchez’s) the band eases from open abstraction to simmering incantation so gracefully that the dividing line effectively disappears.” Nate Chinen, The New York Times
