Arturo Sandoval Begins 2012 in Seattle

Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by Hector Aviles in Blog

Legendary Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval begins 2012 as busy as he was in 2011, taking his Los Angeles based band to Seattle next week for 4 nights at the Jazz Alley. The multi-award winner of several Grammys, Latin Grammys, Billboard Awards, and even an Emmy, returns to Seattle to perform some new material as well as different twists of some of his favorite classics.

In an exclusive interview with Latino Music Café, the maestro Sandoval revealed he just completed 3 new albums, one of them a tribute to his idol and mentor Dizzy Gillespie, which has been recorded with a big band lineup and is in post-production. It’s worth mentioning that Mr. Sandoval owns a trumpet that belonged to Dizzy Gillespie, and he used it in his CD “Trumpet Evolution” to perform a Dizzy Gillespie tune that Dizzy originally recorded with Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo entitled “Manteca”. The other two albums Arturo Sandoval is working on are an album of Tangos which he recorded with various renowned Argentinean Tango singers, and an album he produced for the Gypsy Kings.

Arturo Sandoval is one of the best-rounded musicians in the music world, as he is fluent in the afro-Cuban, bebop, classical, and ballads music languages. Although maestro Sandoval is perhaps best known for his work with his band performing jazz, and previously in Cuba as founding-member of the Afro-Cuban-Jazz fusion band Irakere, Sandoval has also been performing classical music around the world for many years as guest of philharmonics and symphonies in London, Russia, United States, and other countries.

Besides teaching at USC and doing private lessons, the maestro Arturo Sandoval is also scoring the music of two movies. This is not new to him, as he did the score for “The Mambo Kings” in 1990, which was the year he arrived to the United States. He also did the score for the movie based on his life, “For Love or Country”, which starred Cuban actor and music enthusiast/producer Andy Garcia. As if this wasn’t enough to keep him busy in early 2012, Arturo Sandoval is also starting production of a ballads album in homage to the great Mexican crooner Armando Manzanero, in which he will not only play (I’m assuming for this one he will sit at the piano) but also sing (a facet of Mr. Sandoval I wasn’t aware of).

Jazz and music enthusiast s will rarely have the opportunity to see a more accomplished musician than Arturo Sandoval. Those of you in the Greater Seattle area will have this opportunity January 12th to 15th in Seattle’s Jazz Alley. For reservations and showtimes visit the Dimitrious’ Jazz Alley web site HERE. Arturo Sandoval will also visit Virginia and Ontario. For dates and venues visit Arturo Sandoval’s web site HERE.

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Tags: Cuba, Jazz Alley, latin jazz, latin music