Sandy Gabriel is a Dominican jazz musician born in 1974 in Puerto Plata, the northern coastal city that has contributed significantly to Dominican musical life across multiple genres. His work in jazz, Latin jazz, and fusion reflects a deep engagement with the improvisational and harmonic traditions that define jazz as a creative practice, filtered through a Caribbean sensibility that draws on the rhythmic richness of Puerto Plata's musical environment. Gabriel has contributed to Dominican jazz culture through his recordings and performances, working in a tradition that values musical sophistication and artistic risk-taking alongside the communicative power of melody and groove. He represents the jazz tradition in the Dominican north, a region whose musical contribution extends well beyond the merengue for which it is best known.