NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Jazz at Lincoln Center's new Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra kicks off its first U.S. tour March 11.
The nine-city "Mambo Madness" tour will open with March 11-13 concerts at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. The orchestra, led by pianist Arturo O'Farill, will visit Knoxville, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., Gainesville, Daytona Beach and West Palm Beach, Fla., and Oxford and Cincinnati, Ohio, before winding down March 27 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Reedman and composer Paquito D'Rivera will join the band as special guest for the first two concerts, featuring music of Latin Jazz composers Tito Puente, Machito, Mario Bauza and others.
"The ALJO is comprised of the cream of the crop in Latin Jazz musicians. We are performing the seminal works of the Latin Jazz masters and commissioning a new body of work for this genre," said O'Farrill. "With all of this, we are deeply committed to the precepts of groove and clavé."
