Grammy-winning pianist, composer and band leader Arturo O\u2019Farrill has spent decades bringing Afro Latin jazz to audiences in New York City and around the world.<\/p>\n
Now, he\u2019s helping build something even bigger: a permanent cultural home in East Harlem called Casa Belong\u00f3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This Wednesday, his nonprofit organization, Belong\u00f3, is holding its annual benefit to support that mission. And his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra has a new weekly gig in Times Square.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Farrill joined NY1 to discuss it all.<\/p>\n
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning pianist, composer and band leader Arturo O\u2019Farrill has spent decades bringing Afro Latin jazz to audiences in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,128,9,24,12,63,7777,129,131,130,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-371186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-stephanie-simon","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}