NPR's Shereen Marisol Meraji spent time with Cuban trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval, just days before he accepted his adopted country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Arturo Sandoval and Dizzy Gillespie on tour in Europe in 1991. Sandoval's new album, Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You) , is a tribute to his friend and mentor. Courtesy of the artist hide caption ...

Over a 40 year career that has spanned music and film, Cuban-born trumpet master Arturo Sandoval has assembled a staggering list of bonafides.

TARZANA, Calif. -- A multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter donated a top-of-the-line trumpet to an 11-year-old Washington girl after her horn was stolen. Arturo Sandoval, who has won 10 Grammy ...

There’s one word that Arturo Sandoval treasures above all the others: “freedom.” Ask the acclaimed jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator and he’ll tell you freedom is what makes ...

Sometimes it seems as though there’s almost nothing Arturo Sandoval can’t do if he puts his mind to it. The Cuban expatriate, whose life story was the subject of the HBO film “For Love or ...

Born in Artemisa, Cuba, in 1949, Arturo Sandoval started his musical career playing the snare drum in his school’s marching band. "My father was a car mechanic," he said.

Every time trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval plays, he gives a tutorial. The same can be said of many musicians, of course, but what sets Sandoval apart is his example as a man and as an American ...

The Cuban trumpeter first met Dizzy Gillespie in 1977, when the American jazzman came to Havana to play a concert. It was the start of a friendship that would last until Gillespie's death in 1993.

TARZANA, CA -- A multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter donated a top-of-the-line trumpet to an 11-year-old Washington girl after her horn was stolen. Arturo Sandoval, who has won 10 Grammy ...

TARZANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter donated a top-of-the-line trumpet to an 11-year-old Washington girl after her horn was stolen. Arturo Sandoval, who has won 10 ...