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Article: Sandoval Blows Horn for Freedom; Listening to jazz music once offered Arturo Sandoval a kind of escape from Cuba's oppression. But the trumpet master found true liberation after defecting to America.(PICTURE PROFILE)
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- Insight on the News
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- March 29, 2004
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Byline: John Berlau, INSIGHT
One of the biggest cultural blows to Fidel Castro occurred in 1990, when jazz trumpet master Arturo Sandoval, who had toured the world wowing audiences with his horn and touting La Revolucin, defected and proceeded to proclaim that everything he had said about Castro was a lie.
The story of his daring defection, which took place at the U.S. Embassy in Athens with the aid of trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie, was the subject of the Emmy-winning HBO documentary For Love or Country. Sandoval's wife and son defected at the same time in London, and Gillespie and Vice President Dan Quayle later helped them to settle in Florida.
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