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Marta Sanchez Offers a Musical Portrait of Her Inner Landscape

Marta Sanchez. Photo by Kimberly M Wang.

Pianist/composer Marta Sanchez turned pandemic lockdowns into deep self-encounters whose complex, emotional, and bittersweet reckonings she offers up in her latest release, SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum).

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Two New (to Me) Pianists Light Up My Ears

  • Rudy Royston, Art Hirahara, Melissa Aldana, Joe Martin. Photo by Sara Pettinella.
  • Mara Rosenbloom, Rashaan Carter, Anaïs Maviel

Pianists Art Hirahara and Mara Rosenbloom remind me how little I know about the jazz world. Though I’ve been writing about it in one place or another for almost 20 years, it still has many pleasant surprises in store for me. The latest recordings by each of these pianists are prime examples.

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