A prot�g� of legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval has been awarded 10 Grammy� Awards, and been nominated 19 times. He has also received 6 Billboard Awards as well as an Emmy Award for his composing of the entire underscore of the HBO movie based on his life, "For Love or Country", that starred Andy Garcia as Arturo. Considered one of the world's most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, he is also recognized worldwide as a renowned classical artist, pianist, and composer.

To define Joe Chindamo by listing his many talents and interests would be accurate but misleading. Yes, he is an improvising pianist with impressive jazz credentials, and also a contemporary classical composer, an arranger, a recording artist, a vocal accompanist, a theater composer, and a chamber music collaborator. And yet his diverse roles are all facets of one artistic personality, encompassing activities that, in other eras, would simply be the understood definition of a working musician. In Symbiosis, his fourth recording with violinist Zoë Black, Chindamo traverses centuries and continents to elaborate this singular perspective.