LUIS SÁNCHEZ QUINTET
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, pianist & composer Luis Sánchez Guerra began his career as a self-taught improvisational pianist. At the age of 19, he was trained in modern piano at the ‘Fábrica La Isleta’ school to subsequently access the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with a major in jazz piano.
LUIS SÁNCHEZ QUINTET
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, pianist & composer Luis Sánchez Guerra began his career as a self-taught improvisational pianist. At the age of 19, he was trained in modern piano at the ‘Fábrica La Isleta’ school to subsequently access the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with a major in jazz piano.
With a rich original repertoire that he has shown in piano solo, duo, trio, quintet & modern ensemble formats in Boston, the Canary Islands, Madrid and Northern Europe, his piano solo improvisations are notably prominent, in which he fully deploys & displays his intuition, skills and dedication to music.
He has collaborated in projects by artists such as Yul Ballesteros, Kai Gibson, Antonio Lizana, Trinidad Jimenez, Martin Leiton and Jonay Mesa, among others, as well as with jazz formats in Boston like the Bending Line Trio and in the Canary Islands such as the Ensemble Diario Sonoro, among others.
For his participation at the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más, Luis Sánchez Guerra will be accompanied by a line-up of the most outstanding musicians on the Canary Islands jazz scene, featuring Jose Vera Bello on saxophone, Gaspar Nogales on double bass and Rubén Bueno on drums, with the addition of Kervin Barreto, musician of Cuban origin & winner of the JoJazz award 2021 and trumpeter with ‘Calle 13’ on four world tours, from 2011 to 2015.
He presents Historias latentes, a musical project in quintet format in which each piece is based on an imaginary landscape, like a house on the moon, a hippodrome/stadium, a secret spa, the eye of a sea storm and a casino. The melodies, chords & rhythms fill these imaginary places with life in the presentation of each theme and, thanks to the improvisation that characterizes jazz, the musicians relate their story within those places.