NEW RELEASE: Michael League, Pedrito Martínez & Antonio Sánchez present ‘Elipsis’ – out January 16, 2026 via GroundUP

November 4, 2025
NEW RELEASE: Michael League, Pedrito Martínez & Antonio Sánchez present ‘Elipsis’ – out January 16, 2026 via GroundUP

MASTER MUSICIANS PEDRITO MARTÍNEZ, ANOTNIO SÁNCHEZ & MICHAEL LEAGUE UNITE CULTURES AND RHYTHMS ON NEW ALBUM ELIPSIS OUT JANUARY 16, 2026 ON GROUNDUP GroundUP proudly announces the January 16, 2026, release of Elipsis, a six-song collaboration between label-head Michael League, the master composer-arranger-bassist-producer who founded the genre-busting Snarky Puppy and Bokanté bands, and two of … Read More

Jazz Critics Poll 2021!

January 1, 2022
Jazz Critics Poll 2021!

16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound) New Releases – Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Jazziz, Relix) New Releases – Andrew Gilbert (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area News Group) New Releases – Mark Holston (Jazziz, Latino) New Releases – Yoshi Kato (San Francisco … Read More

REVIEWS: Trio Grande & Aaron Burnett Reviewed on Musicalmemoirs’s Blog

January 2, 2021
REVIEWS: Trio Grande & Aaron Burnett Reviewed on Musicalmemoirs’s Blog

By Dee Dee McNeil, Musicalmemoirs’s Blog What do you get when you mix Mexican, Israeli and British cultures into a contemporary jazz album?  It’s like a ball of colorful yarn that unravels and spins songs featuring saxophones, guitars, drums and a splattering of keyboards?  The answer is, “Trio Grande.”  Read more here.    

INTERVIEW: Trio Grande: Three Instruments, Three Nationalities, One Supergroup – All About Jazz

November 13, 2020
INTERVIEW: Trio Grande: Three Instruments, Three Nationalities, One Supergroup – All About Jazz

By Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz An incessant stream of new artists, new ideas, revisitations of old ideas and ever-shifting technological inventions continues to push jazz onward, forward into the 21st Century. While most of today’s music began taking root and developing in the turbulent jazz topographies of the last century, each new interpretation, extension … Read More

REVIEW: Saxophonist Will Vinson, Drummer Antonio Sanchez & Guitarrist Gilad Hekselman Launch “Trio Grande” – Glide Magazine

November 12, 2020
REVIEW: Saxophonist Will Vinson, Drummer Antonio Sanchez & Guitarrist Gilad Hekselman Launch “Trio Grande” – Glide Magazine

By Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine Trio Grande is the debut that unites three of the most inventive, exciting, and accomplished musicians working at the interface of New York’s contemporary musical culture.  British-born saxophonist Will Vinson, Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman and Mexico City native, longtime Queens resident Antonio Sánchez, first came together at the city’s legendary club residencies at the Cornelia … Read More

REVIEW: Trio Grande album review All About Jazz

November 12, 2020
REVIEW: Trio Grande album review All About Jazz

By Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz It’s not easy watching all the divergent and elusive pieces come together on Trio Grande, saxophonist Will Vinson, guitarist Gilad Hekselman and drummer/percussionist Antonio Sanchez‘s first outing, but then that’s not their desire at all. Read more here.