Blue Note debut for GRAMMY-winning composer, bandleader, and pianist Arturo O’Farrill. The album finds O’Farrill leading a colorful 10-piece assemblage he calls The Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, a scaleddown edition of his renowned Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. The program encompasses two inspired multimovement suites that O’Farrill has conceived in collaboration with the Cuban Malpaso Dance Company: “Despedida,” a meditation on farewells, and “Dreaming in Lions,” inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea.