Monday, June 14, 1999
Trumpeter rocks Dayton with hot night of jazz
BY ROBERT MIHALEK
Enquirer contributor
With searing confidence, trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval, added to the already steamy night during a fun, yet too short, performance with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Friday at the Fraze Pavilion in Dayton. The concert included both salsified, Latin jazz and swinging classical music.
Born in Cuba, Mr. Sandoval first started studying classical music at the age of 12. Soon he took up big band jazz, and later formed Irakere, a Grammy-winning group that mixed jazz and Afro-Cuban rock. Lately he's been dividing his time between playing straight jazz shows and appearances with orchestras.
Friday's show had a little of both.
To begin with, the mostly white, baby boomer crowd was treated to a quick set by the Dayton Philharmonic, which included the theme to Star Wars and four swinging Duke Ellington numbers.
A nervous-looking Mr. Sandoval joined the orchestra for Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, fitting in nicely.
But it was Mr. Sandoval and his five-piece band's part of the show that really cooked, especially when they were joined by the orchestra. The collaborative effort for four of the jazz band's six tunes, lead to a powerful, and often grandiose, surprise.
The orchestra, conducted by Dayton Philharmonic Music Director Neal Gittleman, provided broad, lush, sweeping melodies, over which Mr. Sandoval would sputtered out a furious rush of golden squeals and spikes.
On the Dizzy Gillespie tune, “Grooving Hard,” the band and orchestra exploded in an emotional Latin-tinged, hard bop, topped by a fierce drum orgy, lead by percussionist Edwin Bonilla. With large, round rhythmic patterns, the orchestra swung full throttle on “Rhythm of Our World,” while Mr. Sandoval's trumpet took off on a supercharged roll.
As he came back out for an encore a few minutes before 11 o'clock, Mr. Sandoval informed that crowd that he was told he could not play anymore. After just six tunes in a little over an hour, it was definitely a disappointment, only because the crowd, and the musicians, wanted more.
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