Arturo Sandoval
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Arturo Sandoval Biography
A blazing, technically flawless trumpeter from Cuba, Arturo
Sandoval has been dazzling audiences all over the world with his
supercharged tone and bop-flavored flurries way up in the trumpet's
highest register. In slower numbers, he sports a golden, mellow tone on
the flügelhorn, marked with a sure, subtle sense of swing. Apparently
he is capable of playing anything, proving it more than once by
tackling classical repertoire as well as jazz in the same concert, and
he has enough curiosity to search far beyond his Cubop base for
repertory. Yet he often lets his desire to please the crowd with
high-note displays get in the way of musical values, and he has yet to
make a great record that can stand with those trumpet giants that have
preceded him.
The son of an auto mechanic, Sandoval took up the classical trumpet at
12 and was enrolled in the Cuban National School of the Arts at 15,
studying with a Russian classical trumpeter. Early in the 1970s, he
became one of the founding members of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica
Moderna, which by 1973 had evolved into the Afro-Cuban, rock-influenced
band Irakere. Sandoval met his idol Dizzy Gillespie in 1977, who
promptly became a mentor and colleague, playing with Sandoval in
concerts in Europe and Cuba and later featuring him in the United
Nation Orchestra. After recording an album with David Amram, Havana/New
York, and a couple of high-profile Irakere albums on Columbia, Sandoval
left the group in 1981 to tour with his own band and record in Cuba.
Occasionally, the Castro government would allow Sandoval to appear in
various international jazz festivals and with orchestras like the BBC
Symphony and Leningrad Philharmonic. Though he chafed under a regime
that restricted his touring, Sandoval bided his time until he could get
his wife and son out of Cuba, and only then, in July 1990 during a long
European tour, did he defect at the American Embassy in Rome, settling
in Florida.
Signing with GRP, Sandoval's first American album, appropriately titled
Flight to Freedom, demonstrated his versatility in several idioms, and
he toured with his own high-energy Afro-Cuban group in the 1990s. Hot
House followed in 1998, and a year later he returned with Americana.
L.A. Meetings appeared in spring 2001. For 2003's Trumpet Evolution,
Sandoval selected material from his favorite horn players. Since that
time, he has released a handful of recordings including Live at the
Blue Note in 2005 and Arturo Sandoval & the Latin Jazz Orchestra
and Rumba Palace, both in 2007. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide
Written by Richard S. Ginell