The groundbreaking vocalist/composer/
“Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader,
“Sara Serpa is a vocalist wielding an instrument as favourably unadorned and pure as any in jazz… literally, she sounds as if she must sing whenever she speaks.” – Phil DiPietro, All About Jazz
Album Release Concert December 9 at Roulette, NYC
Nighttime Creatures, due out October 27, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, Angelica Sanchez‘s NONET, features Michaël Attias, Ben Goldberg, John Hébert, Thomas Heberer, Sam Ospovat, Chris Speed, Omar Tamez and Kenny Warren
“One of the most persistently overlooked and under-recorded pianists of her generation, Angelica Sanchez… nonchalantly displays her versatility [on] fleet post-bop, fully improvised excursions, or… brooding introspection.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus
” Angelica Sanchez is a pianist of great depth and imagination.” – Richard J. Salvucci, All About Jazz
release date: October 2, 2020 on Pyroclastic Records
“Ms. Sanchez improvises with crisp articulation and muscular command. Her chords, both dense and concise, offset free improvisations that reflect careful attention to narrative clarity.” — Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times
For the past two decades, pianist-composer Angelica Sanchez has shocked, bent and blurred lines and perceptions that separate composition from improvisation. How to Turn the Moon, her first release on Pyroclastic Records, offers a momentary culmination of that expression.
