Angelica Sanchez (musician)

Angelica Sanchez (born 1972) is an American jazz pianist based in New York. Sanchez leads her own quartet featuring Tony Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. She is a member of Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra

Her 2022 album Sparkle Beings was ranked the #8 best jazz album of 2022 by The New York Times.

Life and work
Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1972. From 1990 to 1994 she studied piano and composition at Arizona State University. She moved to New York from Arizona in 1994 and has been collaborating with a wide variety of artists in the New York jazz scene for over 25 years.