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Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time

Read "Big Band Time" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Quick and to the Point: WDR’s Latin Big Band offering with D’Rivera, Roditi and others. Big Band Time is yet another showcase for the first-rate WDR Big Band (WDR), featuring Paquito D’Rivera and Claudio Roditi. Conducted and rearranged by Bill Dobbins, the material is familiar, although its treatment isn’t. The reconceptualizations of compositions mostly ...

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Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time

Read "Big Band Time" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is one of those good old-fashioned power-laden big-band albums that begs the listener to crank up the volume and let 'er rip. Great songs and wonderful charts, essentially in a buoyant Latin groove, played to a fare-thee-well by Germany's superlative WDR Big Band, with electifying solos by Paquito D'Rivera, Claudio Roditi, other guest artists and ...

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Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time

Read "Big Band Time" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


As much as I love the intimacy of trios, there's nothing like a big band--especially one with Latin rhythms, great charts and masterful soloists. Big Band Time has all of these, together with ample proof that D'Rivera is a fine writer as well as player (six of the ten tunes are his). The German WDR Big ...


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