Arturo O’Farrill Doesn’t Mind Looking Like a Fool

A Mexican-German-Cuban-Irish-American Jazz Musician Who Appreciates Donny Osmond

Arturo O’Farrill is a pianist, composer, and founder and music director of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Before participating in a discussion of the American art of risk-taking, he explained his “aesthetic ADD problem” in the What It Means to Be American green room; he’d rather look like a fool than do the same thing twice.