Arturo O’Farrill

A veteran figure from the Afro-Cuban jazz motion, Arturo O’Farrill was created in Cuba and was raised in NEW YORK. The kid of big-band head Chico O’Farrill, Arturo was informed on the Manhattan College of Music as well as the Brooklyn University Conservatory. From 1979-1983, he performed piano using the Carla Bley Big Music group. O’Farrill then continued to build up his skills being a single performer with a broad spectrum of performers, including Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, Papo Vazquez, the Fort Apache Music group, Lester Bowie, and Harry Belafonte. In 1995, O’Farrill decided to immediate Chico O’Farrill’s Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra in home at NY City’s Birdland nightclub; the music group also performed across the world. Being a bandleader in his very own right, O’Farrill documented materials for Milestone Information, 32 Jazz, and M & I. Those recordings (Bloodstream Lines, A Evening in Tunisia, and Cumana) supplied listeners with a synopsis from the musical environment where O’Farrill grew up. He also produced appearances on many information, including Habanera with Alberto Shiroma as well as the soundtrack towards the critically acclaimed film Calle 54. Arturo was a particular visitor soloist at three landmark Jazz at Lincoln Middle concerts — Afro-Cuban Jazz: Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, November 1995, Con Alma: The Latin Tinge in Big Music group Jazz, Sept 1998, as well as the Jazz at Lincoln Middle Gala: The Nature of Tito Puente, November 2001. In March 2002, he was also the highlighted musician in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz within the Institutions Tour, when he led a Latin jazz quintet for 24 educational shows that reached over 5,000 people through the entire N.Con.C. metropolitan institutions. He once again participated within this educational tour in 2002 and continuing to immediate the orchestra that conserved a lot of his father’s music. The entire year 2008 noticed him partnering with vocalist Claudia Acuña for In These Sneakers, a stylish providing of jazz and Latin music. 2 yrs afterwards he released The Public sale Project, offering David Bixler, an acoustic post-bop time using a Celtic impact. In Feb 2011, he implemented with 40 Acres along with a Burro, an outing for his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. A single piano date entitled The Noguchi Periods appeared afterwards in 2011; for your record, O’Farrill was documented alone after-hours on the Noguchi Museum on Longer Island. Being a manufacturer, he helmed the periods for Adam Kromelow’s Youngblood record and participated within a quartet referred to as the Puppeteers with Jaime Affoumado, Costs Ware, and Alex Blake. Their self-titled providing premiered in March of 2014. O’Farrill adopted it in-may using the launch of his following Afro-Latin Orchestra day, The Offense from the Drum. The recording received a 2015 Grammy Award for Greatest Latin Jazz Recording. In Dec of 2014, O’Farrill and his music group had been in Cuba carrying out, and likely to record. Another night, Barack Obama announced the repair of complete diplomatic relationships with the country after a lot more than 50 years of silence. The recording O’Farrill decided is at synchonity using the announcement: It prolonged the musical and ethnic conversation started by Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo through the 1940s. It highlighted four top Cuban and six American composers/arrangers. The best band was extended to support 24 players. Its documenting periods included 21 manufacturers, five vidoegraphers and two videographers from both countries. The dual length record, entitled Cuba: The Discussion Continues, premiered by Motema in the summertime of 2015.