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Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Song for Chico
by Tom Greenland
Like the great Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band, pianist Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra combines the best aspects of a big horn sound with small-group finesse and flexibility. Song for Chico, O'Farrill's tribute to his legendary father, evinces the influences of South American rhythms, hard bop and what might be termed “post-Latin," representing the latest branchings of ...
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Song for Chico
by Woodrow Wilkins
There's a man doesn't care about labels or genres. He's mainly interested in two things: horns and percussion. It follows that one type of music pleases him more than any other: Latin jazz. Song for Chico, by Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, is right up this man's alley. Pianist and music director ...
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Song For Chico
by Dan McClenaghan
Arturo O'Farrill's Song for Chico is a disc that would have done the old man proud. The “Chico" of the title is Cuban-born Arturo “Chico" O'Farrill, the senior (b.1921; d.2001), the visionary Latin jazz composer who wrote, most famously, the “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite," recorded in 1950 by Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra, with none other than ...
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - NYC March 27th & 29th, 2008
Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra are back at Symphony Space in New York City for two more big shows on March 27th and March 29th, 2008 @ 8:00 PM to present “Musica Nueva" and celebrate their new CD release “Song for Chico" on Zoho Records. Fresh off of the sold out performance in January, ...
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Release New CD Song for Chico on Zoho Records
Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra announce new release “Song for Chico"on Zoho Records “This is the finest band I have ever performed with in my life. They make me feel as if I have returned to Cuba." -Bebo Valdez “The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra sounds great with precision brass and saxophone work...... a warm, cohesive ...
Arturo O'Farrill Sextet at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola NYC- February 26th thru March 2nd, 2008
Pianist, Composer, Educator, & Bandleader Arturo O'Farrill will be bringing his Sextet to Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in NYC- Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 to Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 - Set times are 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM Arturo O' Farrill Sextet: Arturo O'Farrill - Piano Jim Seeley -Trumpet Willie Williams -Saxophones
Arturo O'Farrill and ALJO @ Symphony Space in NYC on 1/25/08
The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill presents Otra Noche Inolvidable. Latin singers and songwriters shine in an evening sparkling with great vocal traditions of Latin Jazz, modeled on the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra GRAMMY Award-nominated record Una Noche Inolvidable, with special guest Herman Olivera. January 25th, 2008! 8:00 PM Symphony Space 2537 Broadway ...
Wonderful Discovery
Label: MEII Enterprises
Released: 2007
Track listing: Mr. O's Groove; Song for an Old Soul; Summertime; Arturo's Reverie; Flight; Go Like The Wind; Down the Road;
Raices (Roots); A Smile for Everyone; Take-A-Break; Old Havana; Wonderful Discovery.
Arturo O'Farrill: Wonderful Discovery
by Michael P. Gladstone
Pianist Arturo O'Farrill acknowledges the compositions of Dr. Eugene Marlow on Wonderful Discovery, where one of the composer's longtime wishes is fulfilled with an all Latin jazz album of his tunes. All but three of the dozen tunes are from Marlow's pen, along with one O'Farrill composition ("Arturo's Reverie"), an improvisation by percussionist Bobby Sanabria ("Raices"), ...
Arturo O'Farrill and Friends: Wonderful Discovery
by Ken Dryden
Even though Dr. Eugene Marlow has an impressive résumé as a composer/arranger and educator, many jazz fans are likely to have never heard of him at all though he has written numerous jazz and classical pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and big bands, while also participating in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop since 1998. Wonderful ...
