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Arturo Sandoval

Saturday, October 28 • 8:00pm

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    • “The most prodigious trumpeter of his generation.” – The Guardian (UK)

    Program Notes

    Four-time Grammy-winner Arturo Sandoval does not rest on his laurels. As documented on his recent CD/DVD set, Live at the Blue Note, Sandoval, whose stylistic range encompasses Afro-Cuban, jazz, and classical, more than lives up the The New York Times’ praise of his playing as “unabashedly spectacular.”

    Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of 15 at the Cuban National School of the Arts, but soon moved on to co-found the Grammy-winning, groundbreaking Afro-Cuban supergroup Irakere (of which Paquito d’Rivera and Chucho Valdes were also members). His ability to tour was greatly restricted by the Cuban government, yet Sandoval continued to hone his craft—leading his own band; performing with his idol, jazz master Dizzy Gillespie; and garnering eight successive awards as Cuba’s Best Instrumentalist. In 1990, while on tour in Europe, Sandoval and his family defected to the United States. The story of this flight is the subject of the film For Love or Country, the score of which earned Sandoval his fourth Grammy.

    When not busy enchanting crowds with his live performances, Sandoval lives in Florida, where he is a full-time professor at Florida International University and involved in a wide range of other ongoing educational projects, including the Grammy in the Schools program and sponsoring the “Dizzy Gillespie Trumpet Scholar Award” at the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music.

    Personnel:
    • Arturo Sandoval, trumpet
    • Javier Conception, piano
    • Armando Gola, bass
    • Tomas Cruz, percussion
    • Ed Calle, saxophone
    • Alexis Arce, drums