We have prepared an exclusive package for you, with the purchase of which you will be able to listen to as many as four concerts with one ticket – Arturo O’Farrill & Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Margareth Menezes, The Chick Corea Symphony Tribute Ritmo and Zappa Day in Ljubljana.
A single first category ticket for all four concerts is available here.

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Arturo O’Farrill, piano
Jasper Dutz, alto saxophone
Sun Yoo, alto saxophone
Ivan Renta, tenor saxophone
Berta Moreno, tenor saxophone
Larry Bustamante, baritone saxophone
Seneca Black, trumpet
Jim Seeley, trumpet
Bryan Davis, trumpet
Rachel Therrien, trumpet
Jasim Perales, trombone
Rafi Malkiel, trombone
Juanga Lakunza, trombone
Earl Mcintyre, bass trombone
Keisel Jimenez, congas
Carlos Maldonado, percussion
Raul Reyes, bass
Vince Cherico, drums

In the autumn of 1947 the great Dizzy Gillespie teamed up with conga player Chano Pozo for a concert at Carnegie Hall, at which he debuted compositions exploring the connection between Afro-Cuban music and jazz. Shortly after this, the Cuban composer, arranger and bandleader Chico O’Farrill began working with some of the biggest names in jazz (Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz) and Latin music (Machito, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente and others). Chico’s son Arturo, born in Mexico, was exposed to both genres from an early age. His mother, the singer Lupe Valero, was another formative influence on his musical personality. The family moved to New York City in 1965, where Arturo started piano lessons at the age of six. He received a formal musical education at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts, the Manhattan School of Music, the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. In the late 1970s his talent was noticed by the jazz pianist, organist and composer Carla Bley.
Today Arturo O’Farrill is perhaps best known as the leader of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, with which he has won seven Grammys, most recently for last year’s album Fandango at the Wall in New York.
Opportunities to hear big band jazz in a concert setting have been few and far between in recent decades. This concert will be the first visit to Slovenia by Arturo’s big band and their only European date this year.

In collaboration with: Brane Rončel

• Arturo O’Farrill is a four-time winner of the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album
• over the course of his rich musical career he has released 16 albums as leader and eight albums as sideman with artists including Carla Bley, Bebo Valdés and his father Chico O’Farrill
• he is a featured guest artist of the 2024 edition of the Public Song Project, an initiative that allows anyone the opportunity to record musical works in the public domain
• he appears regularly at iconic jazz club Birdland, a venue associated with some of jazz’s biggest stars, including John Coltrane, Erroll Garner and Ella Fitzgerald
• he was the winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award in 2003