Artist: Arturo Sandoval Genre(s):
Folk
Jazz: Latin
Discography:
Dream Come True Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
A blinding, technically flawless trumpeter from Cuba, Arturo Sandoval has been eye-popping audiences all all over the world with his supercharged note and bop-flavored flurries way up in the trumpet's highest register. In slower numbers, he sports a prosperous, laid-back tone of voice on the flügelhorn, pronounced with a sure, subtle sense of swing out. Apparently he is capable of acting anything, proving it more than once by tackling classic repertory as well as nothingness in the same concert, and he has sufficiency oddity to lookup far beyond his Cubop al-Qaida for repertoire. Yet he a great deal 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 majuscule criminal record that canful stand with those trumpet giants that feature preceded him.
The logos of an motorcar automobile mechanic, Sandoval took up the graeco-Roman trumpet at 12 and was enrolled in the Cuban National School of the Arts at 15, perusing with a Russian graeco-Roman trumpeter. Early in the 1970s, he became one of the introduction members of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, which by 1973 had evolved into the Afro-Cuban, rock-influenced band Irakere. Sandoval met his matinee 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 transcription 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 duty tour with his own ring and record in Cuba. Occasionally, the Castro government would allow Sandoval to seem in diverse international wind festivals and with orchestras like the BBC Symphony and Leningrad Philharmonic. Though he galled under a regimen 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 spell, did he defect at the American Embassy in Rome, subsiding in Florida.
Signing with GRP, Sandoval's first-class honours degree American record album, fittingly highborn
Escape to Freedom, demonstrated his versatility in several idioms, and he toured with his own high-energy Afro-Cuban radical in the nineties.
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 cornet 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
Rhumba Palace, both in 2007.
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