" data-original-title="" title="">Arturo O'Farrill has recorded a set of solely his own compositions. It was worth the wait because this music, played by his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, really demonstrates the cinematic sweep and variety of his writing.

The set is constructed around two topical extended works. The first, "Four Questions," is based on four questions about the struggle for human rights and personal dignity first posed by African-American author W.E.B. DuBois in his book The Souls of Black Folk and then used as the basis for a speech by scholar and activist Dr. Cornel West. Dr. West gives the speech here in the musical cadences of a fire-breathing Southern preacher. He speaks of the fight to retain your humanity in the face of oppression and calls out the names of innumerable African-American and Latino cultural icons, like Frederick Douglass, Paul Robeson,