“Arturo is at the top of the mountain ... “We hope you’re not stupid enough to play American music,” Sandoval remembers the minister warning him. Just to make sure, the musicians were ...

Famed musician Arturo Sandoval was among those celebrated at the 47th Kennedy Center honors in early December. But as a young boy in Cuba, Sandoval's rise to the top of the music world was ...

In addition to The Apollo, the Kennedy Center paid tribute to Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt and Arturo Sandoval ... “Their music fills the universe,” Letterman proclaimed.

Jazz is a “spiritual necessity” to Cuban-born trumpeter, composer and Kennedy Center honoree Arturo Sandoval. But to embrace it fully, he had to escape.