★★★★★
As closely associated as he still is with Cuba, from which he defected in 1981, Paquito D'Rivera has often chosen to express his affection for the music of Brazil. Song for Maura (named after his late mother) is the latest example, a collaboration with that country's Trio Corrente: Fabio Torres (piano), Paulo Paulelli (bass) and Edu Ribeiro (drums)...
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2013-12-02
★★★★★
Track Listing: Viejo Smocking; Beto; Bandoneón; Milonguinha; Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind; Verano Porteño; Tanguajira; Goodbye. Personnel: Paquito D'Rivera: alto saxophone and clarinet; Gustavo Bergalli: trumpet; Pablo Agri: violin (6); Nicholas Danielson: violin (7); Michael Zisman: bandoneón; Raul Juarena: bandoneón (7); Abel Rogantini: piano; Pablo Aslan: bass; Daniel Piazzolla: drums...
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2010-12-06
★★★★★
Cuban-born, New York-raised alto saxophonist/composer has done more than many musicians hope to in a lifetime. Rivera has composed for symphony orchestras, recorded with musical giants Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Mario Bauza and Astor Piazzola as well as pop singer Gloria Estefan, been a member of the Cuban jazz group Irakere and led his own ensembles. His saxophone style is descended from Charlie Parker, but his reach (and grasp) extends to Coltrane and beyond...
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2010-08-23
★★★★★
Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban-born alto saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, bandleader and author is a "jack of all trades" and master of all. He is a winner of several Grammys and other prestigious awards, has recorded over 30 albums as a leader and is constantly working. He took time out to speak with All About Jazz. All About Jazz: With the exception of your early life in Cuba, your career has involved a lot of traveling all over the world...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Corcovado; One For Tom; Manha De Carnival/Gentle Rain; Desafinado; Meu Amigo; A Ra; Retrato Em Branco E Perto; Red On Red; Snow Samba (Total Time: 60:18). Personnel: Paquito D'Rivera Style: Latin/World Read more reviews of Brazilian Dreams Jobim, anyone...? Since 1987, The Manchester Craftsman's Guild has been instrumental in bringing high quality jazz performance to the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
This remote recording at New York City's Blue Note club captures a unique moment in the career of Paquito D'Rivera, one of the premier reed stylists of the last 30 years. With Dario Eskenazi (piano), Diego Urcola (trumpet), Oscar Stagnero (bass), Mark Walker (drums), Pernell Saturnino (percussion) and special guest Oriente Lopez (flute), Paquito rips the curtain open with "Curumim," a burning Brazilian samba. Gone are the piercing high register shrills that once characterized his solos...
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2010-04-16
★★★★★
Paquito D'Rivera's stated goal for his Jazz Chamber Trio is to "unify in one single concept the delicate intimacy of chamber music, the spontaneity of jazz, plus the rhythmic power of Latin-American music." What his album The Jazz Chamber Trio proves is that D'Rivera is just the man for that job...
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2010-02-19
★★★★★
It may have started out as "the Spanish tinge," Jelly Roll Morton's appropriation of Latin feel for some of his seminal jazz compositions, but it has evolved into a substantial world of its own. These four recordings grant a glimpse of the range of Latin jazz, whose conventions and styles can support so much musical weight. A wonderful example of this musical architecture is reedman Paquito D'Rivera's tribute to the most famous of Old Havana's nightclubs, the Tropicana...
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2010-02-19
★★★★★
If you are soft on Communism and Fidel Castro, you won't be after reading this autobiography. While D'Rivera's denunciation of these two evils isn't the main theme of the book, it permeates everything and leaves an indelible impression. D'Rivera--Cuban native, child prodigy, alto saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, author, practical joker, upbraiding letter-writer--endured 21 years of Castro's tyranny before he defected to the United States in 1981...
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2010-02-19