Jazz Articles about Arturo Sandoval

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 ...