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Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Four Questions

Read "Four Questions" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The Four Questions addressed by composer / pianist Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra on its latest album were first posed in 1903 by W.E.B. DuBois in his book The Souls of Black Folk and are answered herein by the esteemed educator / historian / social activist Dr. Cornel West. For the record, the questions are “what does integrity do in the face of adversity and oppression, what does honesty do in the face of lies and deception, what does ...

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Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Cuba: The Conversation Continues

Read "Cuba: The Conversation Continues" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


“I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba...in part owing to my country's policies..." --President John F. Kennedy, October 1963 Revolution and musical genres share the characteristic of having an embryonic state. While the United States and Russia bore witness to the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of the Cold War, ...

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Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: The Offense Of The Drum

Read "The Offense Of The Drum" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The Offense Of The Drum may be the least cohesive record in Arturo O'Farrill's discography, but that's largely by design. Here, O'Farrill firmly adheres to his stated “artistic vision"--"to bend what the world knows as Afro Latin jazz over the acoustic horizon"--better than anywhere else in his discography. Guests galore and a belief in Afro Latin camaraderie help him realize that goal, resulting in the most intriguing and expansive offering that he's ever released. In some ways ...

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Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill: Una Noche Inolvidable

Read "Una Noche Inolvidable" reviewed by Robert R. Calder


The Lincoln Center's Latin jazz big band shows off its paces on the opening “Havana Special," the first of only two instrumentals on Una Noche Inolvidable. Of the following three categories--Latin jazz, jazz-influenced Latin music, and jazzless Latin music--the third's absent here, and the second dominates. With guest singing appearances by Herman Olivera and Claudie Acuña, the set's fairly dominated by their effective vocals. O'Farrill may have the only straight jazz solo, accompanied concerto-style by band following Olivera's ...

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Performance / Tour

Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Perform at Spa Little Theatre

Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Perform at Spa Little Theatre

Source: All About Jazz

Preeminent Latin jazz pianist and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra perform at 8 p.m. on May 30 at the Spa Little Theatre in Saratoga Springs, NY. O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra are 2009 Grammy Award winners in the category of Best Latin Jazz Album' for their work, Song for Chico. Often referred to as the world's leading Latin jazz big band, the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra was founded by O'Farrill in 2001 for Wynton ...

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Cuba: The...

Motéma Music
2015

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The Offense Of The...

Motéma Music
2014

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Una Noche Inolvidable

Palmetto Records
2005

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