GRAMMY® Award Winner Arturo O’Farrill Makes Solo Piano Debut with, The Noguchi Sessions, Available July 10 on ZOHO Music

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Arturo O'Farrill, DL Media, Isamu Noguchi, Pianist, ZOHO Music

Album Inspired by Japanese-American Artist Isamu Noguchi and Recorded After Hours at The Noguchi Museum

Arturo O’Farrill, THE NOGUCHI SESSIONS

Listen to Exclusive Streaming Tracks From The Noguchi Sessions

For some, each discipline in the arts is a self-contained universe, with its own materials and tools and ruled by its own laws. But great art transcends — sometimes in unexpected ways.

Consider the reaction of GRAMMY® Award winning pianist, composer and educator Arturo O’Farrill to the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988).

“I performed at a gala at The Noguchi Museum, and I noticed how in many of Noguchi’s stone sculptures there’s a section, maybe a side or an angle, that is unfinished,” recalls O’Farrill. “He had such a mastery over these huge stone and metal structures, and yet he left parts of his raw material untouched. It’s almost as if he were inviting the viewer to complete the piece, to enter the conversation.”

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra to Conclude 10th Anniversary Season with “Música Nueva 5: Big Band Poetry Jam & Beyond,” May 11 & 12 at Symphony Space

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Arturo O'Farrill, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

WHAT:

Arturo O’Farrill’s GRAMMY® Award-winning ensemble, the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, will conclude its 10th Anniversary season with a celebration titled, “Música Nueva 5: Big Band Poetry Jam & Beyond” at Symphony Space in New York City.

Adam Kromelow Trio -][- Young Blood [Zoho, 2012 | Review]

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Adam Kromelow, Arturo O'Farrill, Composer, Jason Burger, Jazz, Piano, Raviv Markovitz

Adam Kromelow Trio, Young Blood

Adam Kromelow Trio -][- Young Blood [Zoho, 2012 | Review]

As we travel these extensive and sometimes rigorous pathways of jazz, our ultimate goal it appears to discover and sample not only classic gems but probe the possibilities of what’s available in the abyss of today’s spirited and forthcoming voices in this idiom as well. On this outing, I recently met the voice of pianist-composer Adam Kromelow and his impressive Trio and debut simply titled “Young Blood.”

From the onset, I was immediately drawn into his technical mobility and insightful approach to the piano and composition configuration and arrangements. His skilled and explosive technique glides from side to side on the keys of the piano he aptly borrows from the chambers of his conservatory-training to inexhaustibly excel on nine mind-altering compositions produced by Grammy Award Winning musician [pianist] and composer Arturo O’Farrill.

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance on CBS Evening News

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Arturo O'Farrill, Jazz, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

WHAT:
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will be featured on a CBS Evening News national broadcast.

The network will broadcast an interview with O’Farrill, which was recently filmed at Birdland in New York City. Topics of discussion will include the O’Farrill family, nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance and its resident Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, educational outreach, Cuba, and the recent GRAMMY© category cutbacks. Performance footage of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s recent 10th Anniversary benefit at Symphony Space and a recent performance at Birdland will also be broadcast.

WHEN:
* Saturday, February 4 at 6:30PM EST

* Day and time subject to change – alternate air-date will be Sunday, February 5 at 6:00PM EST

WHERE:
CBS (check your local listings )

For more information on the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance and Orchestra,
please visit: afrolatinjazz.org

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Arturo O’Farrill -[|]- RISA NEGRA [ZOHO]

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Arturo O'Farrill, Jazz, Piano

Arturo O'Farrill - RISA NEGRA

Arturo O’Farrill -[|]- RISA NEGRA – [ZOHO, 2011]

Pianist, composer, educator and winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2003, Artuto was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. In 2002, Mr. O’Farrill created the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for Jazz at Lincoln Center due in part to a large and very demanding body of substantial music in the genre of Latin and Afro Cuban Jazz that deserves to be much more widely appreciated and experienced by the general jazz audience. His debut album with the Orchestra “Una Noche Inolvidable” earned a GRAMMY award nomination in 2006. —BIO (Arturo O’Farrill)

For more information about this amazing talent please visit http://www.arturoofarrill.com/, watch out for “RISA NEGRA” coming July 5th, 2011.

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New Jazz Releases for the Week of 2/7/2011

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Arturo O'Farrill, Herb Alpert, Jazz, Kurt Elling, Marc Cary, Yaron Herman

The Week of February 7, 2011

Greeting’s jazz enthusiasts, as always it’s a pleasure to return with more new music releases. With each visit, you’ll discover a montage of new jazz recordings featured at Amazon.com that encompasses a generous diet of nuances which includes a wealth of complex and distinctive styles, textures, melodies, and rhythms exalted by a host of definitive and creative voices in the world of jazz.

For more details, please visit Amazon.com for a complete list of this week latest jazz releases!

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Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra -][- 40 ACRES and A BURRO [ZOHO]

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Arturo O'Farrill, Jazz, Latin Music, Piano

Arturo O'Farrill - 40 ACRES and A BURRO

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra -][- 40 ACRES and A BURRO – [ZOHO, 2011] – MUSIC REVIEW –

New York based and internationally known Grammy winning composer/pianist Arturo O’Farrill returns with another spirited blend of Latin jazz at its finest titled “40 Acres and a Burro” on ZOHO MUSIC. As history buffs, you should be acquainted with this term “40 Acres and a Mule” (other than Spike Lee brand) being that the origin of the phrase goes back to 1865 when confederacy was occupied by the Union and therefore promised the slave’s farmland for them to potentially (illusive) earn a living on once they were freed. Fast forward, no wonder the GOP is ill tempered about the Black farmers and Native Americans finally got what was due to them (defeat and payback dwells in the heart of the oppressors).

The highly-acclaimed pianist Arturo O’Farrill ushers in a comprehensive collection of lively Afro-Latin jazz which subsequently provides a wealth of heartfelt music which gives jazz aficionados the opportunity to clinch, savor and enjoy this amazing musical extravaganza from my Latin brother’s perspective.

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra -][- 40 Acres and A Burro [Zoho Music]

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Arturo O'Farrill, Jazz, Piano

O’Farrill is a magnificent player … sharp, splashy, and driving. —New York Times

Arturo O'Farrill - 40 Acres and a Burro

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra -][- 40 ACRES and A BURRO – [Zoho Music, 2011]

Grammy winner O’Farrill presents his orchestra in two exciting originals and nine standouts that define contemporary Latin big band jazz. Features legendary clarinetist & Grammy winner Paquito D Rivera!

Internationally renowned pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill has been at the vanguard of forward-thinking Latin jazz for several decades.

Since its founding in 2003, the ALJO has become the world s leading Latin jazz big band, with a vast repertory spanning the genre s Afro-Cuban classics and dozens of new works especially commissioned by the ALJO and premiered on their CD recordings. Achieving a Grammy nomination for its first (non-ZOHO) release in 2006, the ALJO won the Grammy in the Latin Jazz category for ZOHO release Song for Chico in 2009.

CD title and closing track 40 Acres and a Burro is a historic allusion to the Civil War practice of providing farmland to slaves who became free men after Union armies occupied areas of the Confederacy in 1865. It is also an ironic reference to the ALJO’s separation from its founding organization at New York s Lincoln Center and its subsequent rebirth as an independent nonprofit corporation with annual residencies at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. —Amazon.com

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Arturo O’Farrill | Risa Negra

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Arturo O'Farrill, Percussion, Piano, Trumpet

Arturo O’Farrill | Risa Negra – [ZOHO Music L.L.C., 2009]

Arturo O'Farrill, Risa Negra

On “Risa Negra” (“Black Laughter”), 2009 GRAMMY winner O’Farrill presents his multi-cultural sextet in ten exciting originals, defining contemporary Latin Jazz in the 21st century.

The jury is out on the iPod generation. It would take years of non-stop listening to get through the music on some people’s players. For these types, it’s not love of music, it’s ownership. They tend to use music as wallpaper. There are not many serious music listeners left, the kind that turn off all electronic diversions, sit down in a comfy chair, close their eyes and allow the music to take them away.

Arturo O’Farrill | Song for Chico

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Arturo O'Farrill, Cuban Jazz, Piano

Arturo O’Farrill | Song for Chico – [Zoho Music, 2008]

2008 Grammy Award WINNER For Best Latin Jazz Album!!! Arturo O’Farrill, Song for Chico.

By now, Arturo O’Farrill has his own following, not just those who are interested in the popular “guests” he has had on previous work. His piano range is wide, both in style and technique. This album showcases his arranging and leadership talent, as well. Anyone who enjoys the rhythms of Afro-Cuban music will appreciate the tight style of the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra that makes just listening without moving to the beat almost impossible. A deft mix of old and new tunes, including the title homage to his father, Chico, who was such a force in bring this music to the USA over half a century ago. The update on the classic “Caravan” makes a great start for the CD. Don’t miss his “Picadillo“, the best version since Cal Tjader’s. Here’s hoping that this proves the springboard for greater recognition and success. —Porterfiend

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