Christian Sands

Christian Sands' 'Embracing Dawn' featured on WBGO's New Day, New Play Sep 9-13

Pianist Christian Sands shares music from his new record, Christmas Stories. We'll hear tales of his childhood in snowy Connecticut, the ultimate Christmas party music and an exclusive song.

WBGO’s Pat Prescott talks with pianist Christian Sands, music director of Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, about the upcoming tour and the event’s impact on his career.

This Wednesday at 7 p.m., join pianist-composer Christian Sands for a special concert presentation.The performance, featuring Sands' trio at the Yamaha…

Christian Sands hails originally from New Haven, Conn., which among other things is a port city on Long Island Sound. That detail sheds some small but…

How do you distill the spirit of the Monterey Jazz Festival into a single band? Considering the ethos of the annual event, the band was designed to be a…

Pianist and composer Christian Sands goes back quite a ways with WBGO — and with Gary Walker, who recalls first seeing him as a 12-year-old protégé of Dr.…

Mikkel Ploug and Mark Turner, “Warmth”Mark Turner is a tenor saxophonist who needs no introduction. Mikkel Ploug may be a little less familiar to American…

Christian Sands, “J Street”Last year, pianist Christian Sands released an album aptly titled Reach. Among other things, it was a demonstration of that…

Christian Sands is a pianist with a deep connection to jazz’s history, but he doesn’t see that as a static proposition. Quite the contrary.“Jazz is such a…