Monk in Motion: Second Runner Up: Adam O'Farrill

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers St New York, NY 10007
Sat, Feb 28, 2015 07:30 PM

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Trumpeter Adam O'Farrill is the second Runner-Up in the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Brooklyn native Adam O'Farrill is the grandson to legendary Afro-Cuban composer and arranger Chico O'Farrill.  His father is pianist and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill.  Adam won the ASCAP Herb Albert Young Jazz Composer Award and the ASCAP Gerswhin Award. Adam co-leads the O'Farrill Brothers Band with his brother, Zack, and has released two albums, Giant Peach and Sensing Flight. Adam O'Farrill will perform with his combo "Stranger Days" which includes Chad Lefkowitz-Brown (tenor sax), Stephan Crump (bass)  and Zack O'Farrill (drums).  Monk-in-Motion: The Next Face of Jazz presents the top three winners of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.