The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance announced that on Sunday, June 26, 2011, the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra will conclude its residency at the famed Manhattan jazz club, Birdland, where it has ...

“Afro Cuban Rhythm is akin to the joy of the man who has discovered fire.” That’s a quote that has been attributed to Dizzy Gillespie, but regardless of whether he actually said it, he more than ...

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 ...

Chico O'Farrill, 79, the composer, arranger, orchestra leader and trumpeter who helped fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz in the 1940s, took it for the first time to the concert stage and reemerged in ...

A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...

It was a brutally cold windy night last February in Manhattan, and as he bundled up to go out and conduct his big band at a local club, the great Cuban arranger, composer and bandleader Arturo "Chico" ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection documents the professional career of Chico O'Farrill, Cuban-born trumpet player, composer and arranger of Afro Cuban, bebop, and ...