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| Arturo Sandoval on trumpet, Jon Barnes and Skip Martin at the Catalina. |
President Obama has named Jazz Giant Arturo Sandoval, Country Music
Legend, Loretta Lynn, Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton
for “The Presidential Medal of Freedom”.
Fresh off of a European tour and daCarbo
Jazz Festival, Arturo Sandoval
has been name among the top nearly two dozen (16) recipients of The Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
Created 50 years ago, the award is the Nation’s highest
civilian honor, presented to people who have made unique contributions to cultural
or other significant public or private endeavors, US
security, national interests and or to world peace.
Sandoval just recently performed at the Catalina
Jazz Club (Aug. 2-3) with Skip
Martin (Kool and The Gang) and
jazz music master Jon Barnes. The
European tour is also being filmed as a documentary.
“It’s an honor to play with a genius in music and a
musician, who has a heart of gold,” said Barnes after hearing about Sandoval’s Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. “Music is a universal language and when we
toured together, we held workshops at the daCarbo Jazz Festal. Sandoval was an inspiration to students and
took the time to talk to them one-on-one.”
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| (L-R) Buddy Princeton, Carlos Sanchez, Jon Barnes, Aid Mayo and Luis Montilla on the red carpet at Catalina Jazz Club, Hollywood with Arturo Sandoval. |
A musician of epic proportions, Arturo Sandoval is the protégé of Jazz
trumpeter and one of Latin Jazz's musical founders, Dizzy Gillespie. A master of the
trumpet and flugelhorn,
Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at age 12, and has been recording for
more than three decades. He has won four Grammy Awards and been nominated
for 12 others in several categories including the 1978 Grammy for Best Latin album with the group "Irakere" (a Yoruba
word for "forest") that he co-founded with Afro-Cuban piano
virtuoso Chucho Valdés.
Sandoval, Skip
Martin and Jon Barnes have been
endorsed by daCarbo, which
makes a-one-of-a-kind carbon fiber horns, giving a smoother jazz sound and
weighing much less than the standard trumpets. Barnes has been endorsed by the
US Postal Service for a commemorative forever stamp and collectible CD
music of Miles Davis that Barnes produced and recorded.
(Skip Martin (former lead singer of Kool and the Gang above with
Arturo Sandoval and Jon Barnes at the Catalina Jazz Club)
Arturo Sandoval and Jon Barnes at the Catalina Jazz Club)
Barnes has also been endorsed by Monster Cable, who sponsored the
daCarbo Jazz Festival, too. Jon Barnes will be playing music with Noel Lee at
Monster Cable in Monterey Ca, Friday Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 16-18) at the Rolex
Monterey Motorsports Reunion (car show) in Monterey
County
Much like Jon Barnes and other jazz musicians, Sandoval is modest about his fame however, he's the first to
recognize legends in the audience who come to hear him and his Arturo Sandoval, L.A. Big
Band. When Sandoval was performing with Martin and Barnes, he took the time
to spotlight Ray Anthony, Ray Anthony Band and Debbie Allen, Debbie Allen Dance Academy,
who was dancing in the audience to a Kool and The Gang hit Song, “Get
Down On It” and “Ladies Night”,
where fans were dancing to the music. Debbie Allen appears tonight (Sat., Aug.
10) in Santa Monica, CA at the Barnum
Theater for the 11 Annual Tap Festival.
Sandoval is performing tonight at the Smith Center Club, Las
Vegas , NV, (
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