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Updated · LAist · May 2Arturo Sandoval releases 49th studio album SANGÚ
4 articles · Updated · LAist · May 2
- The jazz trumpeter made the record with his son, Arturo "Tury" Sandoval III, and daughter-in-law, Melody Lisman, who helped conceive and produce it.
- The album marks a more inward-looking project for Sandoval, whose career spans collaborations with Stevie Wonder and Celia Cruz.
- Sandoval, mentored by Dizzy Gillespie, is a 10-time Grammy winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
How did Sandoval’s son, a non-musician, reshape the sound of a jazz legend for his 49th studio album? What musical secrets from his Cuban past did Arturo Sandoval unlock after composing hundreds of songs during the pandemic?