Arturo Sandoval | How To Play High and Low Trumpet Notes

Recently, Grammy Award Winner Arturo Sandoval was a guest artist and instructor at The King's Academy's Smith Family Conservatory. Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. While living in his native Cuba, Sandoval was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became his friend and mentor and helped him defect from Cuba while on tour with the United Nations Orchestra. Sandoval became an American naturalized citizen in 1998. His life was the subject of the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) starring Andy García. Sandoval has won four Grammy Awards, Billboard Awards and one Emmy Award. He has performed at the White House and at the Super Bowl (1995). Copyright: The King's Academy, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.