Picking Up Where Dizzy Left Off

After playing in his native Cuba for nearly all of his adult life, jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Arturo Sandoval defected to the US in 1990 with his wife and child. His first American album, Flight to Freedom, featured supercharged bebop laced with Afro-Cuban rhythms. His explosive playing has dazzled audiences worldwide and he has shared the stage with mentor Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys to name a few.

Arturo Sandoval returns to Scullers Jazz club for three night beginning Thursday, October 1st. Even if you're not a jazzer, Sandoval is guaranteed to blow your socks off with his high octane, bebop flurries. Whether he's exploiting the trumpet's high register or flying all over the piano keyboard, Sandoval will leave you smiling for days with his virtuoso playing and his infectious passion and love of all things music.

I've seen Arturo Sandoval perform three times. Each time I've been reborn.