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Music Education Monday: Paquito D'Rivera on composing and playing clarinet, and more
Born in 1948 in Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera first became well-known in the USA in the early 1980s as the fiery alto saxophonist for the high-energy band Irakere. Over the ensuing decades, he's revealed other aspects of his musical personality, too—such as his clarinet playing, which has been consistently good enough to earn D'Rivera a place in ...
Take Five with Cesar Orozco
by AAJ Staff
Meet Cesar Orozco: Orozco, a prolific pianist, composer, and arranger, fuses jazz with Cuban and Venezuelan musical styles in unexpected ways that fans in North and South America find irresistible. Born in Cuba in 1980, he moved to Venezuela in 1998, then to the United States in 2012. He has performed and recorded with ...
A New Album, "Predawn Shenanigans Club" By Wataru Uchida
Born in Japan, tenor saxophonist Wataru Uchida was compelled by the power of swing to move to New York, only to come under the spell of Latin rhythms such as samba, Baião and Maracatu that form the core of a new release entitled Predawn Shenanigans Club. A specially recruited lineup of Brazilian jazz players bring life ...
Daniel Schnyder: The Anatomy of an Opera: Charlie Parker’s Yardbird Suite
by Victor L. Schermer
Saxophonist Charlie Parker revolutionized the world of music with his legendary approach to jazz. Unfortunately, his life was much too short and filled with tragedy. In 1955, Parker died at the age of 34 from excessive drug use. He died in the apartment of the Baroness Nica von Koenigswarter in New York City, but ironically his ...
Federico Britos: Hot Club of the Americas
by Edward Blanco
Violinist extraordinaire Federico Britos originally from Montevideo, Uruguay and affectionately referred to by his close friends as “Federico the Uruguayan"--state's one of his closest colleagues, Paquito D'Rivera--has always had a particular affinity for the music of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and the renowned Hot Club of France. Britos pays tribute to the music of that era ...
carlos Averhoff Jr.: iRESI
by Edward Blanco
Tenor saxophonist Carlos Averhoff, Jr. draws on a rich cultural tradition blending infectious Afro-Cuban rhythms with intricate melodies delivered in a hard-driving manner on his impressive modern-styled, Latin jazz-tinged iRESI. A classically-trained musician from Cuba and the son of Miami-based saxophonist Carlos Averhoff, Averhoff, Jr. now resides in Boston after graduating from the prestigious Berklee College ...
Michel Camilo: From Dominica to Spain and Back Again
by Derrick A. Smith
This interview was first published at All About Jazz in July 2000. After performing more than 40 concerts together, longtime friends Michel Camilo and Tomatito recorded Spain, an album that fuses their respective backgrounds of Latin Jazz and flamenco. Spain was released in the country of its title in 1999 to wide critical acclaim ...
Paquito D'Rivera at Mount Vernon Country Club
by Geoff Anderson
Paquito D'Rivera Mount Vernon Country Club Golden, Colorado February 27, 2015 Jazz. Pass it on. That was a big part of what happened Friday night at the Mount Vernon Country Club in the foothills west of Denver. National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and multiple Grammy winner Paquito ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center: The Search for Original African Music
by Nick Catalano
Although jazz emerged as an art form around the turn of the Twentieth century in the southern United States, its roots extend backward over several centuries. The music largely developed from a synthesis of many African and European forms that was achieved through the institution of slavery. Blacks were captured or purchased from specific “factory" areas ...
Gian-Carla Tisera, Elio Villafranca: Nora la Bella
by Alberto Bazzurro
La boliviana (ma californiana d'adozione) Gian-Carla Tisera, in combutta col pianista e arrangiatore cubano Elio Villafranca, tenta uno dei suoi improbabili patchwork (che qualcuno giudica persino audaci, mentre sono semplicemente kitsch-compiacenti) in questo suo nuovo lavoro, che trascorre con emblematica disinvoltura da Puccini agli Inti Illimani e coinvolge fra gli altri il trombettista argentino Diego Urcola, ...
