Arturo Sandoval y su Grupo
A few months ago my fascinating for the Cuban born trumpet player Arturo Sandoval was born. He is a brilliant trumpet player, especially in the high range and can play very fast. His music seems to explode on certain tracks. He was born in 1949 in Artemisa, a small place on the island of Cuba as the son of a car machanic and started to play the trumpet at 12. He founded later, together with now famous musicians like Chucho Valdes, the great piano player, who was part of Roy Hargrove's Crisol band and Paquito D'Rivera, the great orchestra leader, the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, later renamed as Irakere, the best band Cuba ever had. The story how he was discovered by good-old nestor Dizzy Gillespie has been described extensively in a previous blog.
ARTURO SANDOVAL y su grupo (1981)
During the 1980s, he was discovered by Dizzy Gillespie, the rest of the world could hear him playing only during the rare concerts he was allowed to give outside Cuba. The Castro governement only let him play as a kind of ambassador at certain jazz festivals en with tours with the BBC Orchestra and its Russian counterpart, the Leningrad Philharmonic, both classical orchestras. Other contacts were forbidden. In 1990 he left Cuba for a tour with Dizzy's United Nation Orchestra and seeked political asylum at the American Embassy in Rome. He now lives in Florida, where he has a jazz club. He is still very active in music. I found some fragments of Arturo where you can learn more about his career nowadays. You can hear him at a concert with the United Nation Orchestra during the 1990s, but also in a fragment where he introduces us to his club and his last recording. These fragments are to be found at the end of this blog.
Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club In Miami FL (USA)
1937:
- good morning blues = count basie o
PLAYLIST
herbie hancock/head hunters = j. j. johnson/the eminent volume 1 (lp) = guy van duser/live from boulevard music = art blakey and the jazz messengers/freedom rider = rosario giuliani/mr. dodo = swing accordion/le swing a bretelles (2) = freddie hubbard/night of the cookers (2) = arturo sandoval/& his group = jazz at the pawnshop/30th anniversary (3) - cd 3
Nederlands ( To the English translation )
Tijdens de jaren tachtig, nadat Arturo ontdekt was door Dizzy, kon de rest van de wereld hem mondjesmaat leren kennen, omdat de Cubaanse regering hem alleen, als een soort ambassadeur, liet spelen op enkele grote jazzfestivals en op tournees met het BBC Orchestra en haar Russische tegenhanger de Leningrad Philharmonic, beide klassieke orkesten. In 1990 kon hij Cuba voorgoed verlaten door, tijdens een tour met het United Nation Orchestra politiek asiel aan te vragen in de Amerikaanse ambassade in Rome. Hij woont nu, met zijn familie, in Florida waar hij o.a. een jazzclub runt. Ik heb, onder aan dit blog, wat filmfragmenten geplaatst, waar je nog eens kennis kunt maken met zijn manier van spelen ( in de jaren negentig met de United Nation Band van nestor Dizzy Gillespie) en met zijn huidige activiteiten, zoals zijn jazzclub en een nieuwe plaat die hij onlangs lanceerde.
Arturo Sandoval video, waarin hij zijn nieuwe plaat Rumba Palace aankondigt.
De Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club In Miami FL
- good morning blues = count basie o
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
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SPEELLIJST
herbie hancock/head hunters = j. j. johnson/the eminent volume 1 (lp) = guy van duser/live from boulevard music = art blakey and the jazz messengers/freedom rider = rosario giuliani/mr. dodo = swing accordion/le swing a bretelles (2) = freddie hubbard/night of the cookers (2) = arturo sandoval/& his group = jazz at the pawnshop/30th anniversary (3) - cd 3
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