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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZSANDOVAL, Arturo(b 6 Nov. '49, Havana, Cuba) Trumpet, piano. Under the wing of his great idol, Dizzy Gillespie, touring with his United Nation Orchestra and his own Cuban bands until defection to US '90. Though formidably talented and a great showman, his playing was thought to lack light and shade and best heard live, as on No Problem '86 on Jazz House, though GRP albums Flight To Freedom, I Remember Clifford and Dream Come True '90--92 capture his more considered side. Tumbaito was on a Messidor label; Swingin' '96 on GRP was straightahead bop septet with Joey Calderazzo on piano plus guests incl. Clark Terry, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels. Sandoval had joined the Cuban Communist Party so that his wife and son could travel with him outside Cuba, which later made it easier to defect; after several years of paying taxes in the USA and working as a Professor of Music in Florida he was refused American citizenship '97. |