Few mentors have been as well honoured by their protégés as the great American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie has been by the great Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.
Sandoval's last Grammy-winning album - there are another nine and he is a 19-time nominee - was Dear Diz, and was released in 2012.
The CD is a heartfelt tribute to Gillespie, a pioneer in both bebop and Latin jazz. Sandoval has also written a book about his relationship with Gillespie called The Man Who Changed My Life.
"I owe my career to him, my life," says the 64-year-old, who will perform at The Venetian Macao on Saturday.
"He saved me. He gave me the opportunity to perform and tour with him, which lead to my immigration to the US. He set me free from the oppression of a dictatorship where you could be sent to jail for listening to jazz on the radio. Dizzy was a genius of music, my hero."
Sandoval grew up on the outskirts of Havana, and studied classical trumpet. But he was also inspired by the sound of jazz, which was discouraged by Fidel Castro's regime, but beamed by radio across the Gulf of Mexico from the US.