Junio Y Garua - Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

"Junio Y Garua"
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Composed by Laura Andrea Leguia

The Offense of the Drum is being released on Motema Music on May 6th, 2014.

Jazz Across The Americas: Colombia and Peru explores jazz as expressed by some of today's leading artists and composers from those countries now living in the United States. The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra performed repertoire from these artists and premiered several newly commissioned works as well. For over five centuries, dissimilar cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and other regions of the world have melded with the indigenous traditions of South America. The result, particularly in terms of music, is the presence of a wealth of diverse styles - many of them distinct hybrids that exist nowhere else. Jazz Across The Americas represents our ongoing commitment to infusing the sounds of all the Americas into our palette.

"We know it when we hear it. With its clave patterns, piano guajeos, and bass tumbaos, Afro Latin Jazz is indeed the flowering of what Jelly Roll Morton called the "Spanish tinge" of jazz. Yet while the roots of Afro Latin Jazz are intertwined with those of jazz, like a colony of Aspen trees, this music seems to stand alone with its own canon, characters, and culture. We think we know this music. That's why Arturo O'Farrill wants to bend it." -- Kabir Sehgal
"The rhythms of Colombia and Peru, the song forms and styles all flow effortlessly into the future of this ever evolving love affair we call jazz. An art form that is only truly 'American' when we accept the notion that we are all part of a cultural Kente cloth that stretches from Africa, touches Lima, Cali, New Orleans and all people of adventurous souls and open minds." - Arturo O'Farrill

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