Arturo Sandoval's Latin Train - Live at North Sea Jazz 1995 Arturo Sandoval's Latin Train. Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1995, Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, timbalero, 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 friend and mentor and helped him defect from Cuba while on tour with