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ARTURO SANDOVAL
''TIME FOR LOVE''
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Arturo Sandoval ofrece en un nuevo disco su mejor propuesta para el amor

Los Ángeles (EE.UU.), 26 feb (EFE).-
Conocido por haber marcado pauta en la fusión y ejecución del jazz, la música afrocubana, la clásica y otros géneros, el trompetista cubano Arturo Sandoval ultima detalles de su nuevo disco “Time for Love”, que saldrá en mayo al mercado.

“Este es un disco que he añorado hacer por muchos años y ahora Dios me dio la oportunidad de realizarlo; ésta es mi manera de comunicar que en estos tiempos tan difíciles (…) necesitamos valorar más lo verdaderamente importante, el amor como motor fundamental en la vida”, dijo el músico en entrevista con Efe.

“Es un disco muy lindo, muy romántico, con arreglos muy hermosos, donde demuestro mi amor por la música romántica (…). Durante años me han identificado con interpretaciones más alborotadas, pero la trompeta puede sonar de muchísimas maneras y en este disco presento la manera dulce, bonita y elegante”, agregó.

Bajo el sello Concord Records, “Time for Love” incluye 14 temas de autores como Johnny Mandel, Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Ravel, Astor Piazzolla y otros célebres compositores de todos los tiempos.

Participan los músicos Shelly Berg, en el piano; Chuck Berghofer, en el contrabajo; el argentino Jorge Calandrelli, en los arreglos para cuerdas, y Gregg Field, como baterista y productor.

“Es la primera vez que hago un disco completamente con estas características (…) Yo estoy realmente muy contento, hay varias cosas que se pueden considerar como una especie de puente entre la música clásica y el jazz más tranquilo, más refinado”, relató el artista ganador de cinco premios Grammy, seis Billboard y un Emmy.

Desde hace cuatro meses Sandoval reside en Los Ángeles, junto a su esposa Marianela, con quien lleva casado 36 años.

Llegó a esta ciudad, desde Miami, por considerar que le ofrece mayores oportunidades para seguir trabajando en otros proyectos a los cuales también dedica buena parte de su creatividad.

Su experiencia componiendo temas para películas como “Los Reyes del Mambo”, “La Familia Pérez”, y “For Love or Country” -la cinta sobre su vida realizada por HBO y protagonizada por Andy García-, es también una buena carta de presentación que le ha permitido trabajar en nuevos proyectos cinematográficos.

“Ahora mismo estoy haciendo la música para un documental sobre la vida de Oscar Elias Biscet, un excelente médico cubano que está encarcelado injustamente en Cuba hace muchos años y quien es un defensor de los derechos humanos y la libertad” dijo el también productor, compositor y pianista.

Las giras musicales también ocupan la agenda del músico de 60 años quien entre los meses de marzo y abril visitará Montreal en Canadá, San Diego, Chicago, Minneapolis en Estados Unidos y varias ciudades de Europa, entre otros destinos.

“Siempre he pensado que hay que aferrarse al lado soleado de la vida, si puedo ayudar a que esto suceda a través de una buena canción me sentiré bastante honrado, enfatizó Sandoval

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A Time for Love
Arturo Sandoval
Concord Music Group (2010)

By Nicholas F. Mondello
CD/DVD Reviewer
Nick Mondello is a pro trumpeter, writer and marketing/PR consultant to musicians worldwide.

Years ago, on The Tonight Show, host Johnny Carson asked guest Frank Sinatra what music he enjoyed listening to when "in those romantic moments." Sinatra, to the host's surprise, said he particularly enjoyed the hearing works of Debussy, Ravel and other Impressionists and Romantics. With A Time for Love, trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval steps away from the fast, hard-swinging Afro-Cuban and bebop con fuego jazz for which he is known and delivers a 14-cut romantic love letter con alma. This is fine listening, no matter what the moment might be or what Sinatra—who certainly knew his trumpeters—might have enjoyed.

With A Time for Love, Sandoval once again grabs the crown as a king of the trumpet. Leveraging luscious, intelligently refined orchestral arrangements by string wizard Jorge Calandrelli and the always terrific Shelly Berg, Sandoval uses his mile-wide sound, engaging tone and utter mastery of dynamic and melodic nuance to envelop these Great American Songbook, popular and classical selections in warmth and soul.

Since Charlie Parker did it decades ago with Charlie Parker with Strings (Mercury, 1950), jazz musicians have placed themselves in more sedate environments, emulating concert artists by being accompanied by string orchestras. Clifford Brown was one of the first pure jazz trumpeters to do so. Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove followed decades later. More commercially, the Jackie Gleason albums which featured Bobby Hackett's sound did same.

For a jazz player working in this type of environment, one of the displays of maturity is restraint: the ability to take things down tempo-wise, play with the lyric and through the melody—to weave wonder with sound. Sandoval does all of this brilliantly. And, as Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon also did, Sandoval also sings ("Estate").

Chris Botti, another trumpet star who has played the ballad and romance game well, appears as a guest artist. Monica Mancini, a marvelous vocal talent who doesn't play on her pedigree, offers a very nice rendition of "Oblivion."

There could be a tendency to schmaltz it up in the orchestral scenario, falling prey to saccharine sliding strings and unnecessary overplay. Not here. Sandoval commands the horn and the date, emitting nothing but soul through his buttery flugelhorn, open horn and Harmon-muted trumpet. The arrangements frame him marvelously throughout. The rhythm section is beautifully understated, yet musically supportive, with Berg's piano a golden touch.

The only minor critique is the CD's enormity—twelve selections plus two bonus selections (which feature pianists Berg and Kenny Barron, respectively). While the music is terrific, it's a bit too much of a very good thing.

A Time for Love is an elegant, beautiful work of musical artistry by a true master. While now might be Sandoval's time for love, his work here is a wonderful labor of same. So, lower the lights, drink up and savor—and, for tonight, leave Frank on the shelf.

Track listing:

Apres Un Reve (After the Dream);

Emily;

Speak Low;

Estate;

A Time for Love;

Pavane pour une Infante Defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess);

I Loves You Porgy;

Oblivion (How to Say Goodbye);

Pavane;

Smile;

All the Way;

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes;

Windmills of Your Mind;

Every Time We Say Goodbye.

Personnel: Arturo Sandoval: trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals; Shelly Berg: piano; Chuck Berghofer: bass; Gregg Field: drums, percussion; Chris Botti: trumpet (6); Monica Mancini: vocals (8); Kenny Barron: piano (14).Jorge Calandrelli: conductor; Bruce Dukov: concertmaster; Natalie Legget: violin; Phillip Levy: violin; Charlie Bisharat: violin; Darius Campo: violin; Liane Mautner: violin; David Ewart: violin; Tamara Hatwan: violin; Razdan Kuyumijian: violin; Searmi Park: violin; Songa Lee: violin; Kevin Connolly: violin; Tiffany Yi Hu: violin; Robin Olson: violin; Darren McCann: viola; Harry Shirinian: viola; Keith Greene: viola; Alma Fernandez: viola; Dennis Karmazin: cello; Vanessa Freebairn-Smith: cello; Trevor Handy: cello; Christine Ermacoff: cello.
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ARTURO SANDOVAL’S NEW ALBUM A TIME FOR LOVE
SCHEDULED FOR NATIONWIDE RELEASE BY CONDORD JAZZ
MAY 11TH

The Multiple Grammy Award-Winning Trumpet Virtuoso Explores New Ground in Compositions Melding Classical Orchestra and American Standards With Jazz; Guest artists include Chris Botti, Monica Mancini and the Shelley Berg Trio Los Angeles—In what promises to be a breakthrough achievement in a long and celebrated career, jazz impresario Arturo Sandoval’s new collection A Time For Love will be released by Concord Jazz on May 11th. The album features classical compositions for orchestra and jazz trio by Grammy-winning arranger Jorge Calandrelli along with a sprinkling of American jazz standards by composers including Gershwin and Chaplin.

The Havana-born Sandoval, a multiple Grammy-winning horn player, has been yearning to do this album for decades. “It’s been twenty years since I came to live in the United States,” he explains, “and practically every year, with every record label who’s signed me, I’ve asked to make this style album. ‘Let me play softly,’ I said. ‘Let me play ballads with big orchestration behind me. Let me hear the violins and violas, the oboes and the flutes. Let me be inspired by a symphonic setting.”

However, record labels were reluctant to endorse this type of work by an artist known internationally for his own style of bebop-influenced Afro-Cuban jazz and for his technical precision. So, he took matters into his own hands by recording 20 tracks in his home studio that he described as speaking “the language of love.” A superb keyboardist as well as trumpet player, Sandoval played all the instruments and suggested the strings through a synthesizer.

Just when Sandoval was convinced that he would have to release the album himself, a meeting was held with Concord executive Gregg Field, who immediately embraced the project concept and agreed to come aboard as the album’s producer. “Over the next month, we discussed different ideas. As a foundation, Arturo had heard the Shelly Berg Trio album Blackbird and wanted that sound and sensitivity,” said Field. “I suggested Jorge Calandrelli as the arranger for the orchestra and Arturo, who had worked with Jorge in the past, loved the idea. Jorge has tremendous experience with multiple genres including classical cross-over having produced and arranged among others, YoYo Ma's Soul of the Tango and Obrigato Brazil.”

While the album features selections from the Great American Songbook of jazz standards, the focus is reinterpreting the works of classical composers including Ravel, Feure and Piazolla. Classically trained himself, Sandoval was influenced by such artists as Maynard Ferguson, Conrad Gozzo, Woody Herman, Charlie Parker and most importantly, his mentor Dizzy Gillespie.

The album reflects all of these diverse influences, but in particular Sandoval cites trumpet player Bobby Hackett, best known for his work with the multi-layered arrangements of the Jackie Gleason orchestra, and the album Clifford Brown with Strings, as the record’s inspirational touchstones. “These were lush records that thrilled my imagination. They made me realize that the trumpet, for all its brash power, can be a romantic and intimate instrument of love, says Sandoval.

A highlight of the album is the track featuring Sandoval and guest trumpeter Chris Botti on Ravel’s “Pavane for a Dead Princess.” Says Field about the collaboration, “Having two of the most famous trumpet players on the planet in the same room playing together was an event unto itself!”

Another highlight features vocalist Monica Mancini singing on the Astor Piazolla composition "Oblivion," which debuts an English lyric written for her for the recording. Sandoval also sings on the album in both Italian and English (“Estate” and “Smile”).

Truly a melding of classical repertoire with jazz, A Time For Love is a major departure for Sandoval, yet immediately familiar in its timeless ballads. “The song selection process was something that I’d begun when I was a kid back in Cuba,” says the artist, referring to how while growing up he would surreptitiously listen to the officially banned Voice of America radio broadcasts. “This is a project of a lifetime, and no one could be more thrilled than me to have this precious opportunity.
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