Adam O’Farrill is a force to be reckoned with. The 20-year-old trumpeter from Brooklyn has been on the radar of jazz cognoscenti for some time, having released Giant Peach, the début album of the co-led O’Farrill Brothers Band with his older brother, drummer Zack O’Farrill, in 2011. Sensing Flight followed in 2013,… Read moreShow less
Adam O’Farrill is a force to be reckoned with. The 20-year-old trumpeter from Brooklyn has been on the radar of jazz cognoscenti for some time, having released Giant Peach, the début album of the co-led O’Farrill Brothers Band with his older brother, drummer Zack O’Farrill, in 2011. Sensing Flight followed in 2013, receiving a 4-star review in DownBeat in addition to being listed in the Top 50 Albums of 2013 by JazzTimes.
More recently, Adam has been performing with the likes of pianists Vijay Iyer and Arturo O’Farrill as well as alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, with whom Adam recently recorded Bird Calls (ACT Music), featuring Mahanthappa’s new project inspired by the spirit of Charlie Parker; the album is slated for release in 2015. And if that wasn’t enough, just last weekend Adam competed in and was awarded third place in the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition by a panel of judges that included Ambrose Akinmusire, Randy Brecker, Roy Hargrove, Quincy Jones, Jimmy Owens, and Arturo Sandoval.
