

His great Afro-Cuban music aside, this trumpet virtuoso thrives on American music. Sandoval's hyperspeed introduction to Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" demonstrates an early mastery of bebop. He celebrated his U.S. citizenship with a swinging, snazzy rendition of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)." And his version of "Every Time We Say Goodbye" offers a simmering master class in Great American Songbook cookery.