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Arturo Sandoval Can Freely Trumpet His Affinity for Jazz

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Anyone who thinks Cuban-born trumpet great Arturo Sandoval's dramatic life story is worthy of being made into a movie is absolutely correct -- and a decade too late.

“There is a movie about me that HBO made in 2000. Andy Garcia played me, and Charles Dutton played Dizzy," said Sandoval, who rose to international fame in the 1990s as a protg of his hero, jazz trumpet icon Dizzy Gillespie.

Sandoval, who performs with his band Saturday at the Birch North Park Theatre, recently moved from Florida to Los Angeles with his wife. He is perhaps the only living Cuban- American jazz artist who has been the subject of a feature film.

That movie, “For Love of Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story," co-starred David Paymer, Gloria Estefan and Mia Maestro. It did a reasonably sound job of chronicling his transformation from one of Cuba's top classical music trumpeters to an artistically frustrated standout in the small island nation's then largely covert jazz scene.

“Unfortunately, I wasn't free to play jazz as much as I wanted because the government called jazz 'the music of the imperialists,'" Sandoval, a native of Artemis, Cuba, said bitterly.

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