CHICO O'FARRILL
Afro-Cuban Jazz • Cuba
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Chico O'Farrill was one of the main guiding lights in the emergence of Afro-Cuban Jazz in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He arrived in New York from his native Cuba at a point where musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Machito had begun to forge a distinctive fusion of bebop and Cuban music, dubbed Cubop at the time, and quickly became a key figure in that movement.
Ironically, he confessed to a rather low opinion of Cuban music prior to his move to the USA, finding it one-dimensional by comparison with jazz. His initial exposure to the new music fired his own ideas, and showed him a way to make use of his native music.
He was born Arturo O'Farrill into a respectable, well-to-do family in Havana. His father was Irish, and his mother German. He attended a military school in Georgia, where he learned to play trumpet, and was
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Carambola
Afro-Cuban Jazz
2000
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Tenderly
Afro-Cuban Jazz
2001
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Frenesi
Afro-Cuban Jazz
1995
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