BY SCOTT YANOW The music on Nick Sanders’ You Are A Creature, which consists of eleven of the pianist’s originals plus Ornette Coleman’s “The Blessing,” is as unusual as the CD’s title and its cover. Pictured on the cover is a picture from a vintage sideshow advertisement that features a contortionist in action. While the […]
Nick Sanders Trio – You Are A Creature (Sunnyside) By Mike Gates I can remember as a young boy being taken to the fairground. I guess this happened fairly regularly as a kid, my parents doing their duty with two young boys in need of entertainment on their holidays. One of these trips has always stayed […]
Nick Sanders rides keyboard home to New Orleans with new CD, rave reviews. By: Chris Waddington Nick Sanders, the New Orleans keyboard whiz, has plenty to celebrate at the CD-release party set for March 27 at Snug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen St. “You Are a Creature,” Sanders’ second disc for the prestigious Sunnyside label, has been piling […]
Nick Sanders Trio: You Are A Creature (Sunnyside) By: Richard Kamins Nick Sanders hails from New Orleans, a fertile ground for pianists. While attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, as a grad student, Sanders met freshmenConnor Baker (drums) andHenry Fraser (bass), beginning an association that now has lasted 5 years. The Trio’s 2013 debut, […]
Nick Sanders Trio: You Are A Creature (Sunnyside) By Dan Bilawsky It’s sad to say, but many newly-formed piano trios tend to suffer by comparison before they ever get off the ground. So many of these groups consciously or unwittingly walk along well-trod paths, referencing legendary jazz figures or following trails of sonic breadcrumbs dropped […]
The Music is Always There Reflections on jazz, improvisation, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2014. By Thomas Larson One variety of the New Orleans musician is the player who breaks free of his jazz hometown, and, ironically, stays true to its tradition. That’s what I hear in 26-year-old Nick Sanders, a Phenom and native, […]
Reached at his Brooklyn, N.Y., home last week, Nick Sanders was facing a rare stretch of time — a free week. Yet, this was no vacation. “I’m still super busy,” said Sanders, an up-and-coming jazz pianist and composer, who, in addition to the two previously noted occupations, also teaches a handful of students and often hits […]
Nick Sanders is a young pianist, originally from New Orleans, with a precise touch and a wealth of information at his command. As on his prepossessing new debut album, “Nameless Neighbors,” he appears here with the bassist Henry Fraser and the drummer Connor Baker. — NATE CHINEN [via NYT]
The last time pianist Nick Sanders played New Orleans Jazz Fest, the year was 2005 and he was appearing under the auspices of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, which has spawned and nurtured so many talents in genre after genre. On the second Saturday of this year’s fest, Sanders and the New York-based […]