submitted on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 06:05 in Jazz Group by Mike_Longo 
There's a man doesn't care about labels or genres. He's mainly interested in two things: horns and percussion. It follows that one type of music pleases him more than any other: Latin jazz. Song for Chico, by Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, is right up this man's alley.
Pianist and music director O'Farrill, son of the late Chico O'Farrill, is a student of the Dizzy Gillespie School of Jazz Philosophy, a mind-set that says jazz is just a word, but the music that is called jazz can be--and should be--many things, adopting various cultures and instruments. Having performed with Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Belafonte and many others, O'Farrill began direction the band that preserved much of his father's music, Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Woodrow Wilkins
