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Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring Dr. Cornel West “Four Questions“ Experience a unique collaboration from Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Dr. Cornel West. Recorded live at the Kennedy Center in 2021, this streaming premiere features seven-time Grammy winner Arturo O’Farrill as he pays tribute to one of the most provocative critics and social activists of our time: virtuosic speaker, scholar, and civil rights icon Dr. Cornel West. Inspired by what he called the “innate musicality of West’s words,” O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra perform original compositions with West that draw on African American jazz, blues, and chanted sermon to explore arts, politics, progress, and how uncertainty and improvisation often come hand-in-hand with hope. The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Arturo O’Farrill, Piano & Artistic Director Dr. Cornel West, Special Guest Reeds Roman Filiu, alto sax Adison Evans, alto sax Ivan Renta, tenor sax Jasper Dutz, tenor sax Larry Bustamante, baritone sax Trumpets Seneca Black Jim Seeley Bryan Davis Rachel Therrien Trombones Rafi Malkiel Mariel Bildsten Abdulrahman “Rocky” Amer Earl McIntyre, bass trombone Rhythm Vince Cherico, drums Carlos Maldonado, percussion Keisel Jimenez, congas Bam Rodriguez, bass ~ Connect with Afro Latin Jazz Alliance: WEBSITE: FACEBOOK: TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: ~ #arturoofarrill #jazz #afrolatin #latin #jazznews #jazzmusic #nyc #afrolatinjazz #latinmusic #alja #worlwidemusic #THEAFROLATINJAZZORCHESTRA #cornelwest
