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- Affiliation/company
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
- Position
- Director of External Affairs
- How has music impacted your life?
- Music has always been an important part of my life. I am currently the Director of External Affairs for the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance founded by musician, composer, educator Arturo O'Farrill and home to the GRAMMY Award winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance is dedicated to the performance, education and preservation of Afro Latin Jazz. Prior to that I worked for 20 years at the home for New York's Latin Music, Afro-Folkloric,Salsa, Latin Jazz-- the Harbor Conservatory, with an international faculty. Harbor Conservatory was Tito Puente's favorite school where he established the Charlie Palmieri Memorial Piano Scholarship.
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Nina Gale Olson's Blog
Fat Afro Latin Jazz Particpant Max Starcevic Castro Becomes LP Endorser
Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats Participant Max Starcevic Castro Becomes an LP Endorser
The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance is pleased to announce that Max Starcevic Castro, age 13 and a member of our Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats Ensemble, has become an LP Endorser. As an LP endorser, Max is now an ambassador of the LP brand to the public. He is the "face" of LP to the masses. Some of the benefits of being an official LP endorser include the purchase of gear directly from LP at the discounted artist…
ContinuePosted on March 13, 2012 at 12:25pm
Save the Date: May 11 and 12- Big Band Poetry Jam w/the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Mambo, Boogalu, Salsa, Hip Hop, Turntable and Beyond!
Música Nueva 5: Big Band Poetry Jam & Beyond @ Symphony Space
The AFRO LATIN JAZZ ALLIANCE is pleased to present Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra In a big band spoken word celebration of the Nuyorican poetry movement at Symphony Space curated by poet and percussionist Angel Rodriguez, at which a lineup of guest poets will perform their works set to arrangements played by the…
ContinuePosted on March 13, 2012 at 11:36am
Talented & Deserving HS Student Needs an Upright Bass
Brian Paz, he's a junior at Urban Assembly Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists and he spent his summer playing in bands, he shows advanced musicianship and improv skills and has expressed a desire to be a professional musician.
Instrument donation needed. Thank you. Nina Olson, Director of External Affairs, Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. www.afrolatinjazz.org
To contact me:…
ContinuePosted on January 5, 2012 at 12:56pm
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Turns 10!
Join us Jan. 20 & 21 at Symphony Space to celebrate 10 years of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra! January 20 benefit concert to feature Arturo O'Farrill & GRAMMY Award WinningAfro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Ray Santos, Randy Weston, Dafnis Prieto, Claudia Acuna, Donald Harrison, Edmar Castaneda, and Fernando Otero, Get your tickets today to this historic set of concerts.
Benefit proceeds go to support the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance which is dedicated to the performance,…
ContinuePosted on December 14, 2011 at 9:08pm
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Offshoot Project: Global Village Cambodia
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How Numbered Notes makes reading music easier!
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Powerful Partnerships Institute in NYC, April 19-20
Posted by Jonathan Herman on March 26, 2012 at 4:59pm
Fat Afro Latin Jazz Particpant Max Starcevic Castro Becomes LP Endorser
Posted by Nina Gale Olson on March 13, 2012 at 12:25pm
Save the Date: May 11 and 12- Big Band Poetry Jam w/the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Posted by Nina Gale Olson on March 13, 2012 at 11:36am
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