This marks the second time that O'Farrill will lead the Jazz in the Schools tour. In March 2002, he led a Latin jazz quintet for 24 educational performances that reached over 5,000 people throughout the NYC metropolitan area. Selections for this fall's tour include Timonbo (Puente/Santamaria/Bobo), Manteca (Gllespie/Pozo), Mambo Inn (Bauza), Oye Como Va (Puente), as well as traditional bebop standards, ragtime, habaneras, and danzons.
Jazz in the Schools: “Arroz con Bebop" Schedule:
As of 10.07.02/Subject to change
DATE SCHOOL LOCATION TIMES October 21 PS 118 190-20 109 Rd, St Albans TBA
PS 116 107-25 Wren Place TBA October 22 PS 25 34-65 192nd St, Flushing 11:15 AM, 12:50 PM
PS 180 370 W 120th St, Manhattan 7:00 PM October 23 PS 243 1580 Dean St, Brooklyn TBA October 28 PS 180 5601 16th Ave, Brooklyn 10:00 AM
IS 55 2021 Bergen St, Brooklyn 1:00 PM October 29 PS 176 1225 Bayridge Ave, Brooklyn 9:30 AM
PS 163 163 W. 97th St, Manhattan 7:00 PM October 30 PS 315 2310 Glenwood Rd, Brooklyn 12:30 PM
PS 48 155-02 108th Ave, Jamaica, NY 7:00 PM October 31 PS 154 250 W 127th St, Manhattan 1:15 PM November 1 PS 8 465 W. 167th St, Manhattan 9:00 AM, TBA
Participating artists: Arturo O'Farrill was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Educated at the Manhattan School of Music and the Brooklyn College Conservatory, O'Farrill played piano with the Carla Bley Big Band from 1979 through 1983. He then went on to develop as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, Papo Vazquez, The Fort Apache Band, Lester Bowie, and Harry Belafonte. In 1995, O'Farrill agreed to direct the band that preserved much of his father's music, Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, which has been in residence at New York City's Birdland for the past few years as well as performing throughout the world. Besides recording three albums as a leader for Milestone Records, 32 Jazz, and M & I (Bloodlines, A Night in Tunisia, and Cumana Bop), O'Farrill has appeared on numerous records including Habanera with Alberto Shiroma, and the soundtrack to the critically-acclaimed movie Calle 54. O'Farrill was a special guest soloist at three landmark Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts - Afro-Cuban Jazz: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, November 1995; Con Alma: The Latin Tinge in Big Band Jazz, September 1998; and the 2001 Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala: The Spirit of Tito Puente, November 2001. O'Farrill was recently named musical director of the newly formed, Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, J@LC's second resident orchestra, which was inaugurated in the 2002-03 season. Between them, the members of O'Farrill's Latin Jazz quintet Peter Brainin, Andy Gonzalez, Phoenix Rivera, and Joe Gonzalez have performed and recorded with some of the greatest musicians in jazz. These artists include Chico O'Farrill, Tito Puente, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Berrios, Ray Barretto, Mario Rivera, Jerry Gonzalez, Mario Bauza, and Eddie Palmieri.
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