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Arturo O'Farrill's A 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 Charlie Parker sitting in the alto saxophone chair. The original recording of the suite can be heard on Charlie Parker South of the Border (Verve, 1995), and on a magnificently rerecorded version on Chico O'Farrill's last recording, Carambola (Milestone, 2000) on which Arturo O'Farrill the younger served as pianist and musical director...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Dan McClenaghan
