Christian Sands
From New Haven
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About
Christian Sands is a jazz pianist and composer from New Haven, Connecticut, whose playing sits at the intersection of deep tradition and restless forward motion. He has cited Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, and Marcus Roberts as key influences, artists he admires for bringing people into the music while pushing it somewhere new. That philosophy shows in his own work: after graduating from the Manhattan School of Music, he joined McBride's band Inside Straight and toured internationally with them. His third album for Mack Avenue Records, Be Water, earned him a Grammy nomination in the Best Instrumental Composition category for the track "Be Water II". He became a Steinway artist in 2012, and was a finalist for the American Pianists Association Jazz Fellowship Award in 2014.
