August 16, 1998 – Arturo Sandoval is with Charles “”Chip”” McNeill on sax at “Newport Jazz Festival” in Newport, RI

August 11, 2012 – Arturo Sandoval joins the Big Band del 8vo trumpet players – that is Julito Alvarado, Jan Duclerc, ,Humberto Ramírez, Darío Morales,Luis “Perico” Ortiz, Yturvides Vilchez ,José Aponte Dalmau-Alcalde de Carolina plus Luis Torres (ts), Eliud Cintrón (tp),Luis Orta (as) and Rie Akagi (fl) at Fest. Internacional del Jazz de Carolina ,Puerto […]

August 2, 2013 – Arturo Sandoval and his L.A. Big Band featuring Wayne Bergeron on trumpet plus Jon Barnes and Skip Martin – of Kool and the Gang fame – play at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, California

July 16, 1998 – Steve Winwood meets Tito Puente and Arturo Sandoval. So the show is called “Latin Crossings” at “Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival” in Spain

July 16, 1986 – Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and his band will perform at “North Sea Jazz Festival” in The Hague, The Netherlands

May 17, 2009 – Arturo Sandoval and his sextet perform at Sibiu Jazz Festival in Romania

Arturo Sandoval’s ‘A Time for Love’ is a studio album including a collection of classical pieces, standards and ballads and. released on May 11, 2010 by Concord. Track Listing : 1.Après Un Rêve (After A Dream) (Gabriel Fauré) – 05:09 . 2.Emily (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 04:25 . 3.Speak Low (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) […]

Arturo Sandoval’s ‘Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)’ is an album recorded with a Large Jazz Ensemble and released on May 8, 2012 by Concord. Track Listing : 1.Be Bop (Dizzy Gillespie) – 08:18 . 2.Salt Peanuts! [Mani Salado] (Kenneth Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie) – 06:48 . 3.And Then She Stopped (Dizzy Gillespie) – […]

Arturo Sandoval’s ‘Trumpet Evolution’ is an album (‘a journey through the great trumpeters from jazz’s and orchestral music’s past’) released on May 6, 2003 by Crescent Moon/Columbia. Track Listing : 1.Dipper Mouth Blues (King Oliver) – 02:15 . 2.When It’S Sleepy Time Down South (Clarence Muse, Otis Rene, Leon René) – 03:02 . 3.At The […]

April 7, 2013 – Arturo Sandoval plays with Ed Calle (ts), Kemuel Roig (p), Dennis Mark (b), Alexi Pututi Arce (d) and Samuel Torres (perc)in Reading, PA

March 4, 2016 – Arturo Sandoval plays with John Belzaguy (b), Tiki Pasillas (perc), Dave Siegel (kb), Johnny Friday (d), Kemuel Roig (p) and Marius Preda (cimbalom) at Blue Note Milano in Milan, Italy

January 29, 2011 – Arturo Sandoval together with actor Andy Garcia and the CSUN Jazz “A” Band are in concert at Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, CA

January 14, 2011 – Arturo Sandoval on trumpet and Joe “Doggs” Pesci on vocals will sit in with the Joey Defrancesco Trio at Steamers Jazz Club in in Fullerton, California

January 13, 2012 – Arturo Sandoval will be on air with Mahesh Balasooyria (p), Zane Musa (s), John Belzaguy (b) and Johnny Friday (d) from KPLU studios in Seattle, WA.

November 15, 2012 – Caetano Veloso is to be honored as “a person of the year” at Latin Grammy Awards next to Juan Luis Guerra, Arturo Sandoval and Don Omar

This day (November 6, 1949), in Artemisa, Cuba, is born Arturo Sandoval, a jazz trumpeter and pianist.

“Love Is Here to Stay” by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall is a collaboration album of Gershwin songs recorded with the Bill Charlap Trio and released on September 14, 2018 by Verve.

Gloria Estefan, whose birthday is today – Happy Birthday BTW – has duetted with a myriad of singers of all genres, Latin or not. We have selected eighteen of them : Paul Simon, Chaka Khan, Alejandro Fernandez, Jose Feliciano, Tony Bennett, N Sync, James Ingram, Aretha Franklin, Pitbull, Ricky Martin, Celia Cruz, Celine Dion, Patti […]

Dr. John’s ‘Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch’ is a tribute album to Louis Armstrong, released on August 19, 2014 by Concord. Track Listing : 1.What A Wonderful World (George Douglas, Bob Thiele, George David Weiss) – 04:10 . 2.Mack The Knife (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 06:13 . 3.Tight Like This (Langston Curl) […]

This day (August 7, 1942), in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, is born Caetano Veloso, a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist and writer.