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Filed under: Around the World "Cursing in Yiddish is part of the Latin musician's birthright!" So says Latin musician Arturo O'Farrill , a pianist who is one of the key figures in New York's Afro-Caribbean scene. There's no cursing, per se, on 'Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos,' an album of Yiddish tunes given full-on Latin dance treatment. But there's some great cross-cultural electricity. Heck, Jewish musician Herb Alpert built a music business empire on a string of ersatz-Latin hits, starting with 1962's [...]