Jazz Nights: Steve Sandberg Trio

Steve Sandberg - piano 

Michael O'Brien - bass 

Juan Felipe Mayorga - drums

Pianist/composer Steve  Sandberg is an eclectic musician with a lifetime of experience in many worlds of music. He is a three-time Emmy-nominated composer whose scoring, songwriting  and musical direction for “Dora the Explorer”, “Go, Diego, Go!” and  “Dora and Friends” helped make these shows the landmarks they are in  children’s television worldwide. He began classical piano studies at age 4 and won a BMI composers award  before attending Yale University, where he majored in musical theory and  composition.  At Yale, his studies with noted African art theorist  Robert Farris Thompson inspired him to immerse himself in the world of  Afro-Caribbean music.  Upon returning to NYC he played with, arranged  and composed for some of the great salsa artists of the 1970s and 1980s,  including Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, and Daniel Ponce (featuring Tito  Puente).  A highlight of this…