ALJA is dedicated to preserving the music and heritage of big band Latin Jazz through performance and education. The non-profit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) was established by Arturo O'Farrill in 2007 to promote Afro Latin Jazz through a comprehensive array of performances, educational programs, recordings and international cultural diplomacy initiatives.
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ALJA serves as the institutional home of the GRAMMY winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra established in 2002, and self produces the Orchestra's annual performance season at Symphony Space (2007 - 2014), and maintains a weekly engagement for the Orchestra at the famed jazz club Birdland. Arturo O'Farrill's debut album with the Orchestra, Una Noche Inolvidable, earned a GRAMMY® Award nomination in 2006 and the Orchestra's second album, Song for Chico, (ZOHO) earned a GRAMMY® Award for "Best Latin Jazz Album" in 2009. In February 2011, Mr. O'Farrill and the ALJO released their third GRAMMY® nominated album, 40 Acres and a B***o (ZOHO). In 2011, O'Farrill released his first solo album, The Noguchi Sessions, (ZOHO). On May 6, 2014, O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra released their latest album, The Offense of the Drum, on Motéma Music, which is nominated for a GRAMMY® for "Best Latin Jazz Album." Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra's Final Night at Birdland (ZOHO) won the 2014 Latin GRAMMY® Award for "Best Instrumental Album". The Alliance also maintains a world-class collection of Latin Jazz musical scores and recordings. ALJA's education initiatives include the Afro Latin Jazz Academy of Music in-school residency program serving public schools citywide with instrumental and ensemble instruction, and the pre-professional youth orchestra, the Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats, which prepares the next generation of musicians. The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance is a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York and maintains an administrative office at the Harlem School of the Arts -- The Herb Alpert Center where O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra are currently artists-in-residence.
Operating as usual
Virtual Birdland Jazz Club
Sunday 8:30pm ET
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
#ALJADigitalVillage
Virtual Birdland Jazz Club
Sunday 8:30pm ET
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
#ALJADigitalVillage
TONIGHT 8pm ET
Globalquerque Cross Cultural Crossover
In partnership with the groundbreaking New Mexico-based festival: Globalquerque
Rahim AlHaj
Nation Beat
Vivalda Ndula
Nohe & Sus Santos
April 30, 8:00 pm ET
#ALJADigitalVillage
WATCH
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
TONIGHT 8pm ET
Globalquerque Cross Cultural Crossover
In partnership with the groundbreaking New Mexico-based festival: Globalquerque
Rahim AlHaj
Nation Beat
Vivalda Ndula
Nohe & Sus Santos
April 30, 8:00 pm ET
#ALJADigitalVillage
WATCH
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
Originally presented on September 30 of this year, tonight’s program is presented in partnership with the groundbreaking New Mexico based festival, ¡Globalquerque! Cross Cultural Crossover is the virtual version of this year's festival, featuring four past festival acts – Rahim AlHaj (Iraq), Nation Beat (Brazil/USA), Vivalda Ndula (Angola) and Nohe & Sus Santos (Honduras/New Mexico) collaborating on one another’s songs, deconstructing them and re-presenting them through a cross-cultural lense. This distinctive group of musicians has a strong ALJA connection, as ALJO lead trombonist Mariel Bildsten plays with Nation Beat and Rahim AlHaj is one of the featured guest artists on the Fandango at the Wall project. In between musical segments, two past festival MCs, journalists Catalina Maria Johnson (Beat Latino/NPR) and Mel Minter (Musically Speaking/ABQ The Magazine), will engage in conversation with the artists on the process, collaborations, etc.
Rahim AlHaj (Iraq)
Nation Beat (Brazil/USA)
Vivalda Ndula (Angola)
Nohe & Sus Santos (Honduras/New Mexico)
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Virtual Birdland Jazz Club
Sunday 8:30pm ET
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
#ALJADigitalVillage
Virtual Birdland Jazz Club
Sunday 8:30pm ET
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
#ALJADigitalVillage
SUSTAIN THE GROOVE!
#ALJAFundraisingCampaign
#SustainTheGroove
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/sustain-the-groove
Sustain the Groove is the new crowdfunding initiative of The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. Sustain the Groove is a vehicle for audience members to show their support for the artists who perform and present on ALJA s Digital Village as well as other platforms. It ...
This Friday:
Globalquerque Cross Cultural Crossover
In partnership with the groundbreaking New Mexico-based festival: Globalquerque
Rahim AlHaj
Nation Beat
Vivalda Ndula
Nohe & Sus Santos
April 30, 8:00 pm ET
#ALJADigitalVillage
WATCH
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
This Friday:
Globalquerque Cross Cultural Crossover
In partnership with the groundbreaking New Mexico-based festival: Globalquerque
Rahim AlHaj
Nation Beat
Vivalda Ndula
Nohe & Sus Santos
April 30, 8:00 pm ET
#ALJADigitalVillage
WATCH
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
TONIGHT!!! Fandango at the Wall: ShapeShifter Lab Sessions⠀
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Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and ShapeShifter Lab presents⠀
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A Concert Performance Film recorded live at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn in November 2020 and remotely from Veracruz and Tijuana, Mexico, and Valencia, Spain. ⠀
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Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra⠀
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With Special Guests:⠀
Mandy Gonzalez⠀
Villalobos Brothers⠀
Julia Del Palacio⠀
Victor Murillo Music⠀
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And remotely recorded from Veracruz, Oaxaca and Tijuana:⠀
Patricio Hidalgo, Ramon Gutierrez, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Yara Hidalgo, Fernando Guadarrama, and Jorge Francisco Castillo⠀
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Directed by Taylor Krauss⠀
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Suggested ticket price - $20 (“Pay What You Can - $5 minimum)⠀
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WEDNESDAY, April 28 7:00 pm ET⠀
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TICKETS⠀
Link in bio
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DESCRIPTION⠀
In May of 2018, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) joined more than 50 artists from throughout the world and gathered at the Tijuana-San Diego border for an exuberant musical celebration called Fandango Fronterizo. They filmed a documentary, recorded an album, and wrote a book about the experience. At the end of 2020, on a chilly November week, in the midst of a global pandemic, Arturo and the ALJO gathered together again, this time in New York City to create an exclusive concert performance film once again with many of the original guest artists, but this time connected to them remotely from locations as far away as Vera Cruz, Mexico and Valencia, Spain. Featured guests include Mandy Gonzalez, The Villalobos Brothers, Son Jarocho masters Patricio Hidalgo, Ramon Gutierrez, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Fernando Guadarrama and Fandango Fronterizo founder, Jorge Francisco Castillo⠀
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#shapeshifterlab #afrolatinjazzalliance #afrolatinjazzorchestra #arturoofarrill #mandygonzalez #villalobosbrothers #juliadelpalacio #victormurillo
TONIGHT!!! Fandango at the Wall: ShapeShifter Lab Sessions⠀
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Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and ShapeShifter Lab presents⠀
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A Concert Performance Film recorded live at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn in November 2020 and remotely from Veracruz and Tijuana, Mexico, and Valencia, Spain. ⠀
⠀
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra⠀
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With Special Guests:⠀
Mandy Gonzalez⠀
Villalobos Brothers⠀
Julia Del Palacio⠀
Victor Murillo Music⠀
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And remotely recorded from Veracruz, Oaxaca and Tijuana:⠀
Patricio Hidalgo, Ramon Gutierrez, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Yara Hidalgo, Fernando Guadarrama, and Jorge Francisco Castillo⠀
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Directed by Taylor Krauss⠀
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Suggested ticket price - $20 (“Pay What You Can - $5 minimum)⠀
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WEDNESDAY, April 28 7:00 pm ET⠀
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TICKETS⠀
Link in bio
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DESCRIPTION⠀
In May of 2018, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) joined more than 50 artists from throughout the world and gathered at the Tijuana-San Diego border for an exuberant musical celebration called Fandango Fronterizo. They filmed a documentary, recorded an album, and wrote a book about the experience. At the end of 2020, on a chilly November week, in the midst of a global pandemic, Arturo and the ALJO gathered together again, this time in New York City to create an exclusive concert performance film once again with many of the original guest artists, but this time connected to them remotely from locations as far away as Vera Cruz, Mexico and Valencia, Spain. Featured guests include Mandy Gonzalez, The Villalobos Brothers, Son Jarocho masters Patricio Hidalgo, Ramon Gutierrez, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Fernando Guadarrama and Fandango Fronterizo founder, Jorge Francisco Castillo⠀
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#shapeshifterlab #afrolatinjazzalliance #afrolatinjazzorchestra #arturoofarrill #mandygonzalez #villalobosbrothers #juliadelpalacio #victormurillo
TOMORROW!
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Fandango at the Wall: The ShapeShifter Sessions
https://www.shapeshifterlab.com/livestream/fandango-alja/
Fandango at the Wall - The ShapeShifter Sessions April 28, 2021 @7PM EST A Concert Performance Film recorded live at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn in November 2020 and remotely from Vera Cruz and Tijuana, Mexico and Valencia, Spain. Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra With Special Gues...
This week on #ALJADigitalVillage
This week on #ALJADigitalVillage
Thanks for the shoutout DownBeat Magazine!!!
Fandango at the Wall: The ShapeShifter Sessions
THIS WEDNESDAY 7pm ET
https://downbeat.com/news/detail/what-to-stream-april-26-may-3
It’s a HUGE streaming week with International Jazz Day and Jazz Month celebrations aplenty: Norah Jones chats with Don Was, Christian Sands chats with Patrice Rushen and Geoff Keezer, WWOZ’s Piano Night, Arturo O’Farrill and The…
This Wednesday!!!
Fandango at the Wall: The Shapeshifter Sessions
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https://youtu.be/IklClcotTuA
Fandango at the Wall | THE SHAPESHIFTER SESSIONSA concert performance film recorded live at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn in November 2020 and remotely from V...
Fandango at the Wall: The ShapeShifter Lab Sessions
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and ShapeShifter Lab presents
A Concert Performance Film recorded live at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn in November 2020 and remotely from Veracruz and Tijuana, Mexico, and Valencia, Spain.
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
With Special Guests:
Mandy Gonzalez
Villalobos Brothers
Julia Del Palacio
Victor Murillo Music
And remotely recorded from Veracruz, Oaxaca and Tijuana:
Patricio Hidalgo, Ramon Gutierrez, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Yara Hidalgo, Fernando Guadarrama, and Jorge Francisco Castillo
Directed by Taylor Krauss
Suggested ticket price - $20 (“Pay What You Can - $5 minimum)
WEDNESDAY, April 28 7:00 pm ET
TICKETS
https://www.shapeshifterlab.com/livestream/fandango-alja/
DESCRIPTION
In May of 2018, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) joined more than 50 artists from throughout the world and gathered at the Tijuana-San Diego border for an exuberant musical celebration called Fandango Fronterizo. They filmed a documentary, recorded an album, and wrote a book about the experience. At the end of 2020, on a chilly November week, in the midst of a global pandemic, Arturo and the ALJO gathered together again, this time in New York City to create an exclusive concert performance film once again with many of the original guest artists, but this time connected to them remotely from locations as far away as Vera Cruz, Mexico and Valencia, Spain. Featured guests include Mandy Gonzalez, The Villalobos Brothers, Son Jarocho masters Patricio Hidalgo, Ramon Gutierrez, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Fernando Guadarrama and Fandango Fronterizo founder, Jorge Francisco Castillo
#shapeshifterlab #afrolatinjazzalliance #afrolatinjazzorchestra #arturoofarrill #mandygonzalez #villalobosbrothers #juliadelpalacio #victormurillo
SUSTAIN THE GROOVE!
#ALJAFundraisingCampaign
#SustainTheGroove
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/sustain-the-groove
Sustain the Groove is the new crowdfunding initiative of The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. Sustain the Groove is a vehicle for audience members to show their support for the artists who perform and present on ALJA s Digital Village as well as other platforms. It ...
TONIGHT!
Virtual Birdland Jazz Club presents
Guest Artist Antonio Sánchez
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Sunday, April 25 - 8:30 pm ET
#ALJADigitalVillage
Born in Mexico City, six time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sanchez began playing the drums at age five and performed professionally in his early teens. He pursued a degree in classical piano at the National Conservatory in Mexico, attended Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Jazz Studies.
Since moving to New York City in 1999, Antonio has become one of the most sought-after drummers in the international jazz scene. Following 17 years as one of the most revered collaborators with guitarist / composer Pat Metheny, he also has recorded and performed with many other most prominent artists like Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Michael Brecker and Charlie Haden.
In 2014 Sanchez popularity soared when he scored Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) which ended up fetching 4 Academy awards and for which Antonio won a Grammy award. Additional film/tv projects include EPIX network's Get Shorty, Hippopotamus among others.
His recent projects to date include Grammy nominated “Bad Hombre” a socio-political electronica & drums exploration, “Channels of Energy” released this past year, an ambitious project with the WDR Big Band with arrangements of his works by Vince Mendoza and an upcoming release in January 2019 “Lines in the Sand” with his band Migration. In his 8th studio album as a leader Sanchez turns his political anger into a moving musical statement of epic compositional proportions as much a protest against injustice in our current political climate and as a tribute to every immigrant’s journey.
To date Antonio has been awarded 5 Grammy’s, nominations for Golden Globe & Bafta Awards, World Soundtrack New Artist Discovery and Best Original Film Score Award, 3 Echo Awards (Germany), Hollywood Music in Media Award, the Critics’ Choice Movie Award and Modern Drummer’s Jazz Drummer of the year (twice) among many other wins and nominations.
He has been the featured cover artist for Downbeat, Jazztimes, Jazzit, Modern Drummer (twice) and DRUM! just to name a few.
He currently resides in New York City.
TONIGHT!
Virtual Birdland Jazz Club presents
Guest Artist Antonio Sánchez
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Sunday, April 25 - 8:30 pm ET
#ALJADigitalVillage
Born in Mexico City, six time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sanchez began playing the drums at age five and performed professionally in his early teens. He pursued a degree in classical piano at the National Conservatory in Mexico, attended Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Jazz Studies.
Since moving to New York City in 1999, Antonio has become one of the most sought-after drummers in the international jazz scene. Following 17 years as one of the most revered collaborators with guitarist / composer Pat Metheny, he also has recorded and performed with many other most prominent artists like Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Michael Brecker and Charlie Haden.
In 2014 Sanchez popularity soared when he scored Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) which ended up fetching 4 Academy awards and for which Antonio won a Grammy award. Additional film/tv projects include EPIX network's Get Shorty, Hippopotamus among others.
His recent projects to date include Grammy nominated “Bad Hombre” a socio-political electronica & drums exploration, “Channels of Energy” released this past year, an ambitious project with the WDR Big Band with arrangements of his works by Vince Mendoza and an upcoming release in January 2019 “Lines in the Sand” with his band Migration. In his 8th studio album as a leader Sanchez turns his political anger into a moving musical statement of epic compositional proportions as much a protest against injustice in our current political climate and as a tribute to every immigrant’s journey.
To date Antonio has been awarded 5 Grammy’s, nominations for Golden Globe & Bafta Awards, World Soundtrack New Artist Discovery and Best Original Film Score Award, 3 Echo Awards (Germany), Hollywood Music in Media Award, the Critics’ Choice Movie Award and Modern Drummer’s Jazz Drummer of the year (twice) among many other wins and nominations.
He has been the featured cover artist for Downbeat, Jazztimes, Jazzit, Modern Drummer (twice) and DRUM! just to name a few.
He currently resides in New York City.
Recorded remotely from locations around the world, Arturo O’Farrill and the mighty Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra are continuing their Sunday night Birdland residency in an online setting. Please join us every Sunday at 8:30pm ET.
This week, we’re featuring our special guest: drummer and composer Antonio Sanchez, playing both his compositions and music that he recorded with us for our Fandango At The Wall project.
Speaking of FATW, please join us on Wednesday, April 28 at 7pm ET for “Fandango At the Wall: The Shapeshifter Sessions” – more information at: https://www.shapeshifterlab.com/fandango-alja/
As always, the show will be accompanied by live chat and commentary from Arturo and the ALJO musicians. Please say hello and let us know where you’re watching from.
ALJA "Sustain the Groove" Artist Campaign
Please donate and help us support our musician community:
https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/sustain-the-groove
#ALJO #ALJA #afrolatinjazz #ALJADigitalVillage #SustainTheGroove
TONIGHT!
Fandango at the Wall:
CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTISTS
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Mandy Gonzalez
Jorge Francisco Castillo
Varda Bar-Kar
Kabir Sehgal
Friday, April 23
8:00 pm ET
WATCH
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
#FATW #ALJADigitalVillage #fandangoatthewall #arturoofarrill #afrolatinjazzalliance
TONIGHT!
Fandango at the Wall:
CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTISTS
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Mandy Gonzalez
Jorge Francisco Castillo
Varda Bar-Kar
Kabir Sehgal
Friday, April 23
8:00 pm ET
WATCH
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
#FATW #ALJADigitalVillage #fandangoatthewall #arturoofarrill #afrolatinjazzalliance
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