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Arturo Sandoval
Sandoval performing in 2008
Sandoval performing in 2008
Background information
Born (1949-11-06) November 6, 1949 (age 75)
Artemisa, Cuba
GenresJazz, Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban
OccupationMusician
InstrumentTrumpet - Piano
Years active1977–present
Websitearturosandoval.com

Arturo Sandoval (born November 6, 1949) is a Cuban American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer.

Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Gillespie later in 1977. Gillespie became a mentor and colleague, playing with Sandoval in concerts in Europe and Cuba and later featuring him in the United Nations Orchestra. Sandoval defected while touring with Gillespie in 1990, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1998.

His life was the subject of the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), starring Andy García. Sandoval has won ten Grammy Awards and been nominated nineteen times; he has also received six Billboard Awards and one Emmy Award.

On November 20 2013, Sandoval was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama

Career

As a twelve-year-old boy in Cuba, Sandoval played trumpet with street musicians. He helped establish the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, which became the band Irakere in 1973. He toured worldwide with his own group in 1981. The following year he toured with Dizzy Gillespie, who became his friend and mentor. In 1989, Gillespie invited Sandoval to be part of the United Nations Orchestra. During a tour with this group, Sandoval visited the American Embassy in Rome to defect from Cuba. He became an American citizen on December 7, 1998.[1]

Sandoval has performed Latin jazz with Paquito D'Rivera, Tito Puente, and Chico O'Farrill, Cuban music in Miami, and classical music in England and Germany. In the 1990s, he was a member of the GRP All-Star Big Band.[1]

Sandoval's song "A Mis Abuelos" (To My Grandparents) received Grammy Award nominations for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Arrangement. This composition was featured on his Grammy-winning album, Danzon. Other highlights from Sandoval's discography featuring his compositions include Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You) (2012), Live at the Blue Note (2005), Rumba Palace (Grammy 2007), and Hot House (Grammy 1998).

His 2018 album Ultimate Duets, due out on May 18, features a self-titled collaboration with Pharrell Williams and Ariana Grande.[2]

Movies and television

Sandoval in the East Room of the White House, celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, October 12, 2001

When HBO Films developed a movie based on Arturo Sandoval's life, he was asked to score the movie, which earned him his first Emmy award. In 1996, Sandoval was commissioned by the Kennedy Center Ballet to score Pepito's Story, a ballet based on the book by Eugene Fern and choreographed by Debbie Allen. Sandoval also composed a classical trumpet concerto that he performed and recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra.[3]

Sandoval's compositions and performances can be heard in The Mambo Kings, which was nominated for a Grammy in 1992 for Best Instrumental Composition written for a Motion Picture or for Television.

Other work

In 2015, Arturo Sandoval joined the 14th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. He was also a judge for the 2nd, 12th and 13th Independent Music Awards.

Discography

As leader

As sideman

Arturo Sandoval at the International Jazz Festival, Prague, Lucerna Music Hall, 1984

With Gloria Estefan

  • 1991 Into the Light
  • 1993 Mí Tierra

With the GRP All-Star Big Band

With Dave Grusin

  • 1994 The Orchestral Album
  • 1997 West Side Story
  • 1999 Random Hearts
  • 2010 An Evening with Dave Grusin

With Ed Calle

  • 1996 Double Talk
  • 1999 Sunset Harbor
  • 2001 Twilight

With others

Filmography

  • 1987: A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba
  • 1990: Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra
  • 1993: GRP All-Star Big Band Live[1]
  • 1995: Lava Lava!
  • 1996: Mr. Wrong
  • 1996: The Perez Family
  • 2000: For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
  • 2000: Knockout
  • 2001: 61*
  • 2010: Sacred Waters
  • 2011: Oscar's Cuba
  • 2013: 1000 to 1
  • 2013: Antebellum
  • 2013: At Middleton
  • 2013: Christmas in Conway
  • 2013: The Resurrection of Malchus
  • 2013: Tightwire
  • 2014: Underdogs

References

  1. ^ a b c Diaz Ayala, Cristóbal; Kernfeld, Barry (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 499. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
  2. ^ Helman, Peter (May 4, 2018). "Arturo Sandoval & Pharrell Williams – "Arturo Sandoval" (Feat. Ariana Grande)". Stereogum. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "Home - Arturo Sandoval".
  4. ^ Music Hound Jazz ed. Steve Holtje, Music Hound, Nancy Ann Lee: 2001 "Sandoval returned to straight-ahead jazz with Swingin'"
  5. ^ "Arturo Sandoval | Album Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Ultimate Duets by Arturo Sandoval on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Arturo Sandoval | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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