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Cuba: The Conversation Continues

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: (Disc 1) The Triumphant Journey; The Afro Latin Jazz Suite: Movement I: Mother Africa, Movement II: All of the Americas, Movement III: Adagio, Movement IV: What Now?; Guajira Simple; Alabanza; Blues Guaguancó. (Disc 2) Vaca Frita; Just One Moment; El Bombón; Second Line Soca; There’s a Statue of José Martí in Central Park.

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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. ...

Album

The Offense Of The Drum

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Cuarto De Colores; They Came; On The Corner Of Malecon And Bourbon; Mercado En Domingo; Gnosienne 3 (Tientos); The Mad Hatter; The Offense Of The Drum; Alma Vacia; Iko Iko.

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Article: Album Review

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 ...


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