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Arturo O'Farrill on Piano Jazz

Arturo O'Farrill
John Abbott

  Pianist, composer, and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill is the son of the late ChicoO'Farrill (1921 – 2001). A multiple Grammy winner, he has contributed to contemporary Latin jazz as leader of the ChicoO'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra and as the founder of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. On this 2002 Piano Jazz , O'Farrill performs “Dandon Don Vasquez.” He and McPartland expand on the Latin theme with a duet of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “Wave.”

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