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Arturo O'Farrill: Risa Negra
by Mark Corroto
With his 2009 Grammy award in hand, pianist Arturo O'Farrill can finally step out from the very long shadow cast by his father, Afro-Cuban band leader Chico O'Farrill. On Risa Negra, it can be seen how quickly Arturo's children, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill (age 14) and drummer Zachary O'Farrill (age 17)--featured on one track--begin to peer out ...
Grammy Award Winning Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Present "A Different Take / Randy Weston" November 5-6 at Symphony Space (NYC)
Grammy Award Winning Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Present “A Different Take / Randy Weston" Thursday and Friday, November 5 and 6, 2009 at 8 PM Symphony Space Broadway at 95th Street New York, NY New York, New York Arturo O'Farrill and the Grammy-Award Winning Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra return ...
The State of the Trombone 2009: Steve Davis and Luis Bonilla
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz offers ample opportunity to hear diametrically opposed ideas and approaches coming from similar ensembles (and sometimes the same ensemble, as with saxophonist John Coltrane). Consider, on one side, the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, standards jazz made early on by trumpeter Miles Davis and the free jazz of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The trombone has had players in both ...
Dafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet: Live At Jazz Standard NYC
by Mark Corroto
This date is drummer Dafnis Prieto's fourth as leader and second on his own label, Dafnison Music. Following the 2008 studio date Taking The Soul For A Walk, Prieto reenlisted saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum (Hieroglyphics Ensemble, Steven Bernstein's Millennial Orchestra, Kamikaze Ground Crew) and pianist Manuel Valera (John Patitucci, Paquito D'Rivera, Seamus Blake) for this live session ...
Luis Bonilla: I Talking Now!
by J Hunter
The cover art for I Talking Now gives a visual demonstration of how trombonist Luis Bonilla's father took control of conversations at the family dinner table. When things got a little too animated for him, Bonilla's dad would bark out his signature admonishment, “You Chuttup! I talking now!" Both Doctors Phil and Spock would probably take ...
Big Awards Day in Gotham
by Dan Morgenstern
It's been a while since we last met in my Den, so I thought I'd share a very special summer doubleheader with you.June 16 was a big jazz day in New York. It began in mid-afternoon at the Jazz Standard, with the 13th Annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards. Arriving not long after starting ...
Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
The Jazz Session #67: Arturo O'Farrill
Listen Pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill won a Grammy for his 2008 recording “Song For Chico" (ZoHo, 2008), named for his father, composer/arranger Chico O'Farrill. In this wide-ranging interview, O'Farrill talks about the forgotten roots of jazz, the need to embrace hand-drumming, and how jazz can only move forward by learning about its past. ...
Arturo O'Farrill Quintet Live at Louis Armstrong House
Latin Jazz Pianist Arturo O' Farrill To Perform August 11 At Free Jazzmobile Concert At Louis Armstrong House Museum. Louis Armstrong was famous for playing trumpet on his balcony to the delight of his neighbors in working-class Corona, Queens. Continuing the tradition, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is pleased to present Arturo O'Farrill and his Quintet ...
Pianist/Bandleader Arturo O'Farrill Interviewed at AAJ
Arturo O'Farrill, an extraordinary pianist, admits he came out of the bebop school of playing, a Bud Powell disciple, and his strong chops would attest to that. He didn't pursue the music of his father--the great Chico O'Farrill--in his younger days, but he came upon it as he studied the music. He came to not only ...
