Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is an internationally-acclaimed master of Latin Jazz.
Based on a firm foundation of Dizzy Gillespie-era American big band jazz, Latin jazz sizzles with syncopated rhythms and cool Caribbean instruments such as congas, bongos, claves and timbales, blending music and cultures of the U.S., the Caribbean and, underlying all, Africa. Arturo Sandoval spent the first two decades of his career performing in jazz and jazz-rock bands in Cuba, traveling internationally with the permission of the Castro government. In 1990 when he was on tour in Europe he and his family defected and settled in Florida. He has toured continually since then, and, as he does in this video, brings Cuba from the islands to the world.
