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The Arturo O’Farrill Sextet at Birdland
The Arturo O’Farrill Sextet will be performing at the Birdland Jazz Club in NYC from Thursday thru Saturday January 1st – 3rd, 2009. Kick off the new year right here with a three-night-only run of Arturo O'Farrill's sextet! Son of the legendary bandleader Chico O'Farrill, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill directs Symphony Space's Afro-Latin Jazz ...
Arturo O'Farrill & Claudia Acuna: In These Shoes
by Woodrow Wilkins
Friends sometimes make the best partners. It's a good formula for Arturo O'Farrill and Claudia Acuna, who collaborated for In These Shoes.O'Farrill, a 2006 Grammy nominee as a pianist, composer and arranger, has put his mark on Latin and jazz styles, often mixing both. Acuna, a singer from Chile, also fuses Latin and jazz ...
Arturo O'Farrill & Claudia Acuna: In These Shoes
by Jerry D'Souza
Singer Claudia Acuna's style has been shaped by a wide range of influences. She started out singing Chilean pop and rock along with folk and opera. It seemed nothing was off limits. Jazz came calling when she came under the spell of Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan, leading her to sit in with Wynton Marsalis, Danilo ...
Arturo O'Farrill and Claudia Acuna - A Musical Match Made in Heaven!
Brooklyn, NY - Latin Jazz virtuoso Arturo O’Farrill and South American Jazz vocalist Claudia Acuna are pleased to announce the release of their first album together. Arturo O’Farrill who is most known as the leader of the Chico O’Farrill Orchestra, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and former Director of Latin Jazz at Lincoln Center has paired ...
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
