Winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2003, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. In 2002, Mr. O'Farrill and Wynton Marsalis created the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for Jazz at Lincoln Center due in part to a large and very demanding body of substantial music in the genre of Latin and Afro Cuban Jazz. His debut album with the Orchestra āUna Noche Inolvidableā earned a GRAMMY award nomination in 2006. Educated at the Manhattan School of Music Read more on Last.fm