Jazz Giants: Arturo Sandoval and His Quintet
1st Part of Our Jazz Giants Series
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient | 10-time Grammy Award winner | Emmy award recipient | 6-time Billboard award winner
A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was born in a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer. ...
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Jazz Giants: Arturo Sandoval and His Quintet
1st Part of Our Jazz Giants Series
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient | 10-time Grammy Award winner | Emmy award recipient | 6-time Billboard award winner
A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was born in a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer.
Sandoval is one of the most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time, and has been seen by millions at the Oscars performing with Celine Dion, at the Grammy Awards with Justin Timberlake and in his own right as a leader. He also performed at the Billboard Awards with Alicia Keys. Sandoval has been awarded 10 Grammy Awards and nominated 19 times; he has also received six Billboard Awards and an Emmy Award for his composing work on the entire underscore of the HBO movie based on his life, For Love or Country that starred Andy Garcia as Arturo.
His two latest Grammy award winning albums, Dear Diz (Every day I Think of You) and Tango Como Yo Te Siento are now available worldwide. Recently released is a new book chronicling his relationship with Dizzy Gillespie called The Man Who Changed My Life. Arturo also is the 2013 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Arturo Sandoval’s versatility can be heard on recordings with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Woody Shaw, Michel Legrand, Bill Conti and Stan Getz to Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, Rod Stewart and Alicia Keys amongst many others. He has performed with John Williams with the Boston Pops, and in the Super bowl with Tony Bennett and Patti LaBelle. His compositions can also be heard on Dave Grusin’s soundtrack for Havana and Random Heart, in the Mambo Kings soundtrack with his Grammy nominated composition Mambo Caliente, in the soundtrack of The Perez Family, 61, Mr. Wrong, the documentary Oscar, and The Family Fuentes among of others. He also was commissioned by the Kennedy Center to compose the music for the ballet Pepito’s Story, Soul Possessed, as well as Oman O Men and The Chocolate Hot Nutcracker, choreographed by Debbie Allen.
One frequently speaks of Arturo Sandoval’s virtuoso technical ability or his specialty in high notes, but he who has seen him on the piano, lyrically improvising a ballad, or has had the opportunity to enjoy the diversity of his music through his compositions from the most straight ahead jazz, Latin jazz or classical, knows that Arturo Sandoval is a prominent musician, and one recognizes that Arturo is one of the most brilliant, multifaceted and renowned musicians of our time.
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