ARTURO SANDOVAL PONCHO SANCHEZ BAND LATIN BAND A protégé of the legendary jazz master If music were about pictures, percussionist Dizzy Gillespie, ARTURO SANDOVAL PONCHO SANCHEZ’s music would was born in Artemisa, a small town in the best be described as a kaleidoscopic swirl outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November of some of the hottest colors and brightest 6, 1949, just two years after lights to emerge from either side of the Gillespie became the first border. At any given show, on any given musician to bring Latin record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, influences into American salsa and other infectious grooves collide Jazz. Arturo has since evolved and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that into one of the world’s most are no less than dazzling. acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugel horn, Sanchez grew up in a suburb of L.A., where as well as a renowned classical he was raised on an unusual cross section artist, pianist and composer. of sounds that included straightahead jazz, Latin Sandoval is one of the most jazz and American soul. By dynamic and vivacious live performers his teen years, his musical of our time, and has been seen by consciousness had been millions at the Oscars performing with solidified by the likes of John Celine Dion, at the Grammy Awards with Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cal Justin Timberlake and in his own right Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, as a leader. He also performed at the Wilson Pickett and James Billboard Awards with Alicia Keys. He has Brown. Whatever the genre, been awarded 9 Grammy Awards, and the mesmerizing array of nominated 17 times; he has also received 6 sounds and colors from Billboard Awards and an Emmy Award. Poncho Sanchez’s youth have telegraphed across the decades and continue to inform “Sandoval’s playing is spectacular.” his creative sensibilities to this day. His over THE NEW YORK TIMES 20 year relationship with Concord Records has yielded two dozen recordings, a Grammy “He’s one of the best.” Award and several Grammy nominations. DIZZY GILLESPIE “As Elvis is to rock and James Brown is to soul, Poncho Sanchez is to salsa… particularly the congas.” LA TIMES Representation: TED KURLAND ASSOCIATES 173 BRIGHTON AVE, BOSTON MA 02134 p/617-254-0007 f/617-782-3577 [email protected] www.tedkurland.com .