Jazz Articles about Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval: My Passion for the Piano

by Dave Nathan
April 12, 2002

There have been jazz artists who have set aside their usual instrument for an excursion into the realm of another. Bix Beiderbecke was known to play Ravel and other classic composers on the piano. Charles Mingus recorded an album on the keyboard. Now comes first rate trumpet player Arturo Sandoval with his own recorded adventure on the piano. In a trio setting, augmented by saxophonist Ed Calle on two tracks, he takes on an eclectic program of familiar and less ...

Arturo Sandoval: Hot House

by Javier AQ Ortiz
March 1, 2002

In societies haunted by seemingly providential preventive warnings and labels, this album should come with a cover admonition: “Warning! Testicular trumpet playing can affect all those with a weak heart for well-executed music, especially Kenny G fans. Please consult your physician before buying this album.” Well, on the other hand, do not think for a minute that Sandoval's work can be subsumed into ballsy, brawny, cojonudo, flights of unparalleled blowing. After all, no one can be described as the “Best ...

Arturo Sandoval: My Passion For The Piano

by Jim Santella
March 1, 2002

Straight-ahead piano trio jazz is one of Arturo Sandoval's passions. High-flying, bebop-rooted trumpeting is another. There are other passions in his life. In November 2000, HBO television depicted his life in a special film, For Love Or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Andy Garcia.

Like his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval has always felt comfortable sitting down at the piano to accompany his band and to share in the ensemble's fun. As a piano soloist, he is surprisingly well skilled. ...

Arturo Sandoval: L.A. Meetings

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2001

With his last Cuban band, Arturo Sandoval visited Los Angeles in 1989. His defection didn't occur until almost a year later. The Poncho Sanchez band was going to be part of a European tour with Arturo Sandoval's band and Dizzy Gillespie. So, here were Sanchez, Sandoval and his Cuban band; rehearsing for the tour. What an opportunity! Frank Marrone recorded them in Hollywood's Ocean Way Studio. The result is one of Sandoval's finest recordings.

Rising star Hilario Duran shows his ...

Arturo Sandoval: Ronnie Scott's Jazz House

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2000

Now that Arturo Sandoval is approaching mythologization through a new HBO movie entitled, appropriately enough “The Arturo Sandoval Story," revived interest in his life and career--of course in sync with the Latin, and specifically Cuban, music surge--inevitably will lead to new recordings, re-releases and touring schedules. And to think: The Feds almost deported this soon-to-be legend.

DCC Compact Classics' timing is good, very good indeed. But it seems to be coincidental. The DCC label so far has specialized in re-releasing ...

Arturo Sandoval: Hot House

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 1998

On Hot House, the flashy Cuban–born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval coaxes a big–band sound from a group that is slightly smaller than Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau (two trumpets, two saxophones, two trombones and rhythm), adding a vigorous Latin beat shaped by drums, bass, piano, synthesizer and three rhythm specialists — Castrillo, Bonilla and Toledo — with timbalero Tito Puente sitting in on two numbers. Like Maynard, Sandoval uses his high–note trumpet to add weight to ensemble passages and tight arrangements ...