West Side Story Reimagined
Channel: Tableaux Multimedia
Date: 2018-05-01

Hi Bobby Sanabra here! Most of you know me in my roles as a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, educator and a multi-Grammy nominated bandleader. Two years ago I came up with the idea of re-arranging the music from Leonard Bernstein's masterpiece West Side Story and performing it with my Multiverse Big Band, but in a way that has never been done before - a complete Latin jazz reworking of the entire score in celebration of the show’s recent 60th anniversary and Maestro Bernstein’s centennial. But besides paying tribute to the composer and the music, I saw this as an opportunity to give back and help my ancestral homeland Puerto Rico