Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis is coming to Harper College in Palatine, IL on Monday, July 22, 2013, 1-2pm!
Harper College
http://www.harpercollege.edu
Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis
http://sandovaljose.com/kindofblue/
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I’ll be playing at the Villa Park Summerfest with Bob Musial’s band on Sat. June 22, 2013, 8-10pm.
We’ll be doing really fun festival songs: U2, Paul McCartney, R.E.M., The Verve, 80s & 90s covers.
Villa Park Summerfest 2013
http://villaparksummerfest.com/
Motown News
My concert program, The Spirit of Motown, has a segment on Mount Prospect Public Library’s Library Life, Show #139, March 2013. Here are the YouTube links and more info about the program.
The Spirit of Motown on Library Life
http://youtu.be/-0RRkaU_LwI
Jose Sandoval’s concert program, The Spirit of Motown
http://sandovaljose.com/motown/
Watch the full episode of Mount Prospect Public Library’s Library Life, Show #139, March 2013:
http://youtu.be/llQ_XpCVzio
News Performance
Here is the truly inspired "O Divine Redeemer"¯ performance from this Easter morning.
http://youtu.be/PkkUoGAJ3ks
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Easter and Passover week!
Franco Martorana is a truly respected and gifted tenor, and it's been an honor working with him.
Thank you to St. Paul's Bible Church. Thank you to Carol Stein for all years of classical lessons she gave me — I wish she could have been there.
O Divine Redeemer Easter, March 31, 2013, at St. Paul’s Bible Church, Chicago
http://youtu.be/PkkUoGAJ3ks
O Divine Redeemer, by Charles Francois Gounod
Performed live Easter morning, Sunday, March 31, 2013
Franco Martorana, opera tenor, http://www.francomartorana.com/
Jose Sandoval, classical pianist, http://www.sandovaljose.com/
St. Paul’s Bible Church, Chicago, http://www.stpaulsbiblechurch.org/
Performance
Have a blessed Easter weekend.
This Easter, I’ll be accompanying gifted tenor, Franco Martorana, at Saint Paul’s Bible Church. We’ll be performing a beautiful and challenging piece, O Divine Redeemer for this special service.
Franco Martorana
http://www.francomartorana.com/
Saint Paul’s Bible Church,
1960 West 94th street, Chicago, IL 60643
Kind of Blue News Performance
This Sunday, Kind of Blue at Prospect Heights Public Library 3/24/2013 starting at 2pm.
Featuring,
Jose Sandoval, piano & presenter
Alex Feldman, bass
Rick Vitek, drums
Register for this event here:
http://ow.ly/jeEGU
Event Type: Concert – General
Age Group(s): General public
Date: 3/24/2013
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:00 PM
Description:
When Miles Davis released the album “Kind of Blue” in 1959, he redefined jazz and influenced every genre of music for generations to come. Join us as Mount Prospect’s own Jose Sandoval featuring his jazz trio on piano, bass and drums take us inside Miles Davis’ musical masterpiece through interpretive performances and a discussion of the album’s contribution to the evolution of jazz. Featured musical selections written by Miles Davis include: Donna Lee, So What, Freddie Freeloader, Blue in Green, All Blues, and Flamenco Sketches.
Location: Borland Meeting Room
Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis
sandovaljose.com/kindofblue/
Jose Sandoval, Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speaker
http://www.prairie.org/bios/road-scholars/jose-sandoval/
Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speakers Bureau
http://www.prairie.org/programs/ihc-road-scholars-speakers-bureau
News Performance
I'll be debuting my new concert series, Love Songs in the Afternoon, tomorrow, March 19, 2013, at Mount Prospect Public Library.
Register for this event here:
http://mppl.org/calendar/?ID=13287
Date: 3/19/2013
Start Time: 1:30 PM
End Time: 3:00 PM
Description:
Timeless, everlasting, and unforgettable, the love songs of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s have a special quality that gets everyone humming along or reminiscing. Library Life host and vocalist Cathy Cushing and jazz pianist Jose Sandoval present a musical program of love songs and you-done-me-wrong songs, including "You Made Me Love You,"¯ "Moonglow,"¯ "Unforgettable,"¯ "The Man that Got Away,"¯ "The Nearness of You,"¯ "Stormy Weather,"¯ and "It Had to Be You."¯
Library: Mount Prospect Public Library
Location: Meeting Room A room 154
Kind of Blue News Performance
The Illinois Humanities Council is sponsoring my solo version of my Miles Davis concert program at the Moline Public Library.
Thank you to the Moline Public Library for the great publicity and display that features an inspired blue cloth, bookmark handouts, and superb picks from their circulating collection that patrons can check out. I'm looking forward to visiting this library, eating at their cafe, and presenting Miles.
Moline Public Library
http://www.molinelibrary.com/
Moline Public Library – Programs and Events
http://www.molinelibrary.com/wc20130311.html
Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis
sandovaljose.com/kindofblue/
Jose Sandoval, Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speaker
http://www.prairie.org/bios/road-scholars/jose-sandoval/
Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speakers Bureau
http://www.prairie.org/programs/ihc-road-scholars-speakers-bureau
Kind of Blue News
Chicago Tribune article on my program, Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis.
I recently gave an interview on Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis to the Chicago Tribune. I’ll be presenting my program at the Orland Park Public Library on Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 7pm. You can read the article in the Chicago Tribune in print edition and on their website:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-02-18/news/ct-tl-0221-miles-davis-tribute-20130218_1_miles-davis-greatest-jazz-life-and-music
‘Kind of Blue’ tribute celebrates seminal Davis album
February 18, 2013|By Jack McCarthy, Special to the Tribune
It’s arguably the greatest jazz recording every conceived with an influence that resonates even after nearly 54 years.
Orland Park Public Library visitors can find out why as Miles Davis’ monumental 1959 album “Kind of Blue’ is featured in a Feb. 28 program.
“There is something magical about this album that makes everyone a jazz lover,” said Jose Sandoval, a Chicago-area artist and creator of “Kind of Blue: A Piano Tribute to Miles Davis.” “I want to show why it is still is so exciting and why it’s still relevant today.”
Sandoval, a 33-year-old Mount Prospect native, will present his solo piano interpretation and talk about Davis’ life and music during a 60-minute free event in Room 104 of the library, 14921 Ravinia Ave. in Orland Park.
The Orland Park session is among several Sandoval will make through the Illinois Humanities Council’s Road Scholars program. The Council has sent artists, storytellers, historians and other performers to libraries and other venues around the state for the past dozen years.
Davis, an Illinois native who died in 1991 at age 65, was a pioneering jazz musician, bandleader, composer, trumpeter who led the way in developing varying forms of this uniquely-American musical style.
His seminal recording of “Kind of Blue” has reportedly sold more than four million copies in the United States since its release. The BBC’s Chris Jones‘ revisited the album in 2007 and said it changed the face of music.
“Consistently rated not just as one of the greatest jazz albums but as one of the greatest musical statements of the 20th century, its 46 minutes of improvisation and sophistication remain peerless,” Jones wrote.
Sandoval, who discovered the recording while in high school, said he’ll demonstrate how Davis’ work remains fresh and influential.
He’s performed this year at Chicago’s Union League Club and libraries in Park Ridge and Mount Prospect. Future appearances are scheduled at libraries in Moline, Prospect Heights and Rolling Meadows as well as Palatine’s Harper College.
“I want to keep performing this program forever,” he said.
Sandoval has a degree in physics from Harvard and academic interests in math and computer programming. But his real love is music.
“Music is completely my life now,” said Sandoval, who also dabbles in other musical genres.
His latest project is “The Spirit of Motown, Soul and R&B,” a program that focuses on the influences of the Detroit-based sounds of the 1960s.
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On Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 7pm, I’ll be presenting a solo piano version of my concert and jazz history program, "Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis,"¯ at the Orland Park Library. Hope to see you there! This event is sponsored in part by the Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speakers Bureau.
Orland Park Library Events
http://www.orlandparklibrary.org/events.htm
Kind of Blue: A Tribute to Miles Davis
http://sandovaljose.com/kindofblue/
Jose Sandoval, Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speaker
http://www.prairie.org/bios/road-scholars/jose-sandoval/
Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholars Speakers Bureau
http://www.prairie.org/programs/ihc-road-scholars-speakers-bureau
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