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Album Review

Bobby Sanabria: Vox Humana

Read "Vox Humana" reviewed by Cary Tenenbaum


The opening track on Vox Humana could easily have been the encore of this live performance recorded at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, part of Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York City. It is a rousing version of the Duke Ellington crowd pleaser “Caravan" and a boisterous Latin tinged big band version it is, with Matthew Gonzalez's barril de bomba and requinto pandereta, bandleader and drummer Sanabria and others on congas, bongos and bells prominently leading the percussionists and portending ...

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Arturo O'Farrill: Four Questions

Read "Four Questions" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Surprisingly this set marks the first time Arturo O'Farrill has recorded a set of solely his own compositions. It was worth the wait because this music, played by his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, really demonstrates the cinematic sweep and variety of his writing. The set is constructed around two topical extended works. The first, “Four Questions," is based on four questions about the struggle for human rights and personal dignity first posed by African-American author W.E.B. DuBois in ...

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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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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Best of Tobin...

ArtsForge
2023

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Best of Tobin...

ArtsForge
2023

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Vox Humana

Jazzheads
2023

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Best of Tobin...

ArtsForge
2023

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Prestidigitation

ArtsForge
2022

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Four Questions

Zoho Music
2020

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Contemporary Insanity

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 3:...
By David DeJesus

Eleanor Rigby (remastered)

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 2:...
By David DeJesus

God Bless the Child

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 2:...
By David DeJesus

Fusion of Minds

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume...
By David DeJesus

I Wanna Fly

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume...
By David DeJesus

Frankenfanny

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume...
By David DeJesus

Birdland Runaround

From: Prestidigitation
By David DeJesus

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

From: Prestidigitation
By David DeJesus

Giant Steps

From: Prestidigitation
By David DeJesus

Watermelon Man

From: Prestidigitation
By David DeJesus

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