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On "SANGÚ," Arturo Sandoval reaches back and pays it forward

NPR·NPR·about 1 month ago
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Trumpeter and Cuban jazz performer Arturo Sandoval has released his 49th album. Joseph Gray hide caption toggle caption Joseph Gray Jazz maestro and Afro-Cuban music legend Arturo Sandoval's obsession with sound began at the age of 13 in the small town of Artemisa in western Cuba. Now 76, Sandoval boasts a history that includes being mentored by Dizzy Gillespie, winning 10 Grammys and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and collaborating with towering figures like Stevie Wonder and the "Queen of Salsa" herself, the late Celia Cruz. But on his 49th studio album, "SANGÚ," Sandoval turns inward, with a little help from his family. His son, Arturo "Tury" Sandoval III, and daughter-in-law, Melody Lisman, helped conceive and produce the album. "They came one day to my house and said 'you know what? We have an idea,'" Sandoval says. "'You need something different.…

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