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Arturo Sandoval at the San Francisco Jazz Festival |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Friday, 06 October 2006 |
 Arturo Sandoval © Andrea Canter
Multiple-Grammy winning virtuoso trumpeter and international star,
Arturo Sandoval, appears with his band at San Francisco Jazz Festival at the Herbst Theatre on October 28th. His band includes Alexis Arce on Drums, Tomas
Cruz on Percussion, Javier Concepcion on Piano, Armando Gola on Bass,
and Ed Calle on Sax.
Like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is equally gifted as a performer and entertainer. His Grammy-winning discography contains work as a founding member of the Cuban supergroup Irakere, classical recordings, and the score for the HBO biopic of his life and defection from Cuba, For Love or Country. At his SFJAZZ debut concert, the vibrant and unpredictable Sandoval is likely to play piano, scat a jaw-dropping solo, and even pitch in on percussion.
From his days with the Cuban super-group Irakere to the United Nations
Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie to several award-winning albums, he has
firmly established himself as a leader in jazz and classical music. He
has a created a sound and style all his own. Expect a true world music
mix of salsa, mambo, bolero, rhumba, danzon to straight-ahead jazz and
r&b.
Granted political asylum in July 1990 and US citizenship in 1999,
Sandoval and his family now call Miami, Florida home. A
protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie,
Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana,
Cuba, on November 6, 1949, 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 flugel horn, as well as a renowned classical artist.
Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group
Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and
traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the entertainment
world. In 1981, he left Irakere to form his own band, which garnered
enthusiastic praise from critics and audiences all over the world.
Sandoval was voted Cuba ’ s Best Instrumentalist from 1982 to 1990.
Arturo Sandoval has been awarded 4 Grammy Awards, 6 Billboard Awards
and an Emmy Award. The latter for his composing work on the entire
underscore of the HBO movie based on his life, “ For Love or Country ”
starring Andy Garcia. He is one of the most dynamic and vivacious live
performers of our time, and has recently been seen by millions in the
Grammy Awards performing with pop-phenomenon Justin Timberlake as well
as on the Latin Billboard Awards with the gifted Alicia Keys, where he
was awarded his 6th Billboard Awards for “ Best Latin Jazz Album”.
Not only is Arturo a tenured professor at Florida International
University, but he works nationally and abroad with innumerable
institutions and their music departments offering several scholarships,
exercise books, clinics and seminars, and has rendered a considerable
amount of time working with the NARAS educational program. Furthermore,
Hal Leonard Publishing has not only released additional educations
books with recorded CD ’ s that include original exercises by Sandoval,
but has published various big band, combo and marching band charts from
his award winning albums. Arturo Sandoval maintains one of the most
extensive educational programs in the industry.
Sandoval is also a renowned classical musician, performing regularly
with the leading symphony orchestras from around the world. Arturo has
composed his own “ Concerto for Trumpet & Orchestra” , which can be
heard on “ Arturo Sandoval: The Classical Album.” Also, he has been
chosen to perform with the foremost orchestras on primetime television,
and was asked by John Williams to record on Williams’ original Trumpet
Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra. His classical artistry has
earned him the respect and admiration from the most prestigious
conductors, composers and symphony orchestras world-wide.
Arturo Sandoval - trumpet
Alexis Arce - Drums
Tomas Cruz - Percussion
Javier Concepcion - Piano
Armando Gola - Bass
Ed Calle - Sax
More Tour Dates:
Fri 10/20/06 Cincinnati, OH University Of Cincinnati
Sat 10/21/06 Cincinnati, OH University Of Cincinnati
Sun 10/22/06 Cincinnati, OH University Of Cincinnati
Thu 10/26/06 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort
Fri 10/27/06 Las Vegas, NV Santa Fe Station Casino
Sat 10/28/06 San Francisco, CA Herbst Theatre
Fri 11/24/06 Allston, MA Sculler's
Sat 11/25/06 Allston, MA Sculler's
Sun 11/26/06 Allston, MA Sculler's
Sat 01/13/07 Barbados, ISL Farley Hill
Sat 04/14/07 Johnson City, TN East Tennessee State University
Sat 04/28/07 Omaha, NE Holland Performing Arts Center
Fri 05/25/07 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symph. Ctr.
Sat 05/26/07 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symph. Ctr.
Sun 05/27/07 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symph. Ctr.
Sun 06/24/07 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Festival
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