''Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)'' is an album by Cuban jazz trumpeter
Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. While living in his native Cuba, Sandoval was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became his f ...
that won the
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961. From 1962 to 1971 and 1979 to 1991 the award title specified instrumental performances. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works ...
in 2013. The album is Sandoval's tribute to his friend,
Dizzy Gillespie. Musicians on the album include
Gary Burton
Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be he ...
,
Eddie Daniels
Eddie Daniels (born October 19, 1941) is an American musician and composer. Although he is best known as a jazz clarinetist, he has also played saxophone and flute as well as classical music on clarinet.
Early life, family and education
Daniel ...
,
Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco (April 10, 1971August 25, 2022) was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, and occasional singer. He released more than 30 albums under his own name, and recorded extensively as a sideman with such leading jazz perfo ...
, and
Bob Mintzer.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. While living in his native Cuba, Sandoval was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became his f ...
– trumpet
* Bruce Otto, Craig Gosnell, Steve Holtman,
Wayne Bergeron
Wayne Bergeron (born January 16, 1958) is an American jazz trumpeter.
Bergeron rose to prominence as a member of Maynard Ferguson's band in the 1980s. Since then, he has worked on over 400 TV and motion picture soundtracks. As a lead and studi ...
– trumpet, flugelhorn
*
Rusty Higgins
Rusty Higgins is an American music master, saxophonist, arranger, composer, and session musician. As a member of the Bob Florence Limited Edition, Higgins won the Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for '' Serendipity 18''. Ba ...
– alto saxophone, alto flute
*
Dan Higgins
Dan Higgins (born January 28, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American saxophone and woodwind player. He has worked with such artists as John Williams, Seth MacFarlane, Aerosmith, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, Maroon 5, Kenny Loggin ...
– alto saxophone, alto flute, flute, piccolo flute
* Rob Lockart – tenor saxophone, clarinet
* Brian Scanlon– tenor saxophone, clarinet
*
Bob Sheppard
Robert Leo Sheppard (October 20, 1910 – July 11, 2010) was the long-time public address announcer for numerous New York area college and professional sports teams, in particular the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (1951–2007), and ...
– tenor saxophone, clarinet
*
Bob Mintzer – tenor saxophone
* Greg Huckins – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
*
Gary Burton
Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be he ...
– vibraphone
*
Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco (April 10, 1971August 25, 2022) was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, and occasional singer. He released more than 30 albums under his own name, and recorded extensively as a sideman with such leading jazz perfo ...
– organ
*
Shelly Berg
Shelton "Shelly" Glen Berg (born August 18, 1955) is an American classical and jazz pianist and music educator. He is the dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and the school's Patricia L. Frost P ...
– piano
* Carlitos Del Puerto – bass
*
Chuck Berghofer
Charles Curtis Berghofer (born June 14, 1937), professionally known as Chuck Berghofer, is an American jazz double bassist and electric bassist, who has worked as a studio musician and in the film industry for more than 60 years, including workin ...
– bass
* Brian Nova – guitar
* Dustin Higgins – guitar
*
Gregg Field
Gregg Field (born February 21, 1956) is an American record producer and musician, who has worked with many well-known artists. He is a recipient of multiple Grammy and Emmy awards.
Early life
Field was born in Castro Valley, California, Unit ...
– drums
* Joey De Leon – percussion
* Munyungo Jackson – percussion
*
Andy García
Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956), known professionally as Andy García, is a Cuban-born American actor, director and musician. He first rose to prominence acting in Brian De Palma's ''The Untouchables'' (1987) alongside ...
– bongos
Production
* Arturo Sandoval – producer
*
Gregg Field
Gregg Field (born February 21, 1956) is an American record producer and musician, who has worked with many well-known artists. He is a recipient of multiple Grammy and Emmy awards.
Early life
Field was born in Castro Valley, California, Unit ...
– producer, recording
* John Burk – executive producer
* Don Murray – recording, mixing
* Andrew Click, Bill Smith, Dustin Higgins, Eddie Perez, Gerrit Kinkel, Steve Genewick – engineer
* Chad Carlisle, Gerrit Kinkel – assistant engineer
* Paul Blakemore – mastering
Charts
References
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2012 albums
Arturo Sandoval albums
Big band albums
Concord Music Group albums
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album