by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 21, 2015 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Cuba: The Conversation Continues Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come,” Victor Hugo once wrote. The United States avoided the idea of engagement with Cuba...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 20, 2015 | All, Music, Op-Ed
When President Obama shocked the world that the U.S. would normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba on December 17, 2014, I was in Havana with Grammy-award winning pianist Arturo O’Farrill making an album, Cuba: The Conversation Continues. Remarkably, the night before...
by Kabir Sehgal | Mar 18, 2014 | All, Liner Notes, Music
The Offense of the Drum Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal 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...
