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Litchfield Jazz Festival "Friends Gala" at Winvian Luxury Resort & Spa
Connecticut's Litchfield Jazz Festival opens on Friday, August 1st with the “Friends Gala" at Winvian Luxury Resort. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres with fresh seasonal ingredients and premium wines, Magic Hat microbrews and music by outstanding Litchfield Jazz Camp students. The party is followed by performances at Goshen Fairgrounds by 9-time Grammy Award Winner Paquito D'Rivera and 2-time ...
Paquito D'Rivera - The Lost Sessions CD - Available 05/13/08
Rare tracks from the mid-70s by the incredible D'Rivera. Description: Recorded in Havana and Finland with a dream band that features Chucho Valds, Arturo Sandoval, Carlos Emilio Morales and Oscar Valds, among others, the woodwind giant Paquito D'Rivera offers an excellent variety of songs from different genres. You will play it over and over again. This ...
Funk Tango
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Pere; What About That?; Revirado; Contradanza; Milonga 10; Last Waltz; Funk-Tango; Mariela's Dream; La Yumba/Caravan; Como Un Bolero; Giant Steps.
Paquito D'Rivera Quntet?: Funk Tango
by Joel Roberts
The question mark at the end of the group's name above isn't a mistake. It's Paquito D'Rivera's way of signaling that listeners shouldn't expect to hear just a traditional jazz quintet on his consistently excellent and continually surprising Funk Tango. Instead, the Cuban-born multi-instrumentalist leads an ever-shifting international ensemble that adds and subtracts members based on ...
Paquito D'Rivera, Count Basie and Nnenna Freelon at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
by Victor L. Schermer
Paquito D'Rivera Quintet; The Count Basie Orchestra; Nnenna Freelon The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Verizon Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 28, 2007 The first concert in the series of Mellon Jazz Fridays at the Kimmel Center kicked off in the midst of Phillies “fever, with our local baseball team ...
Paquito D'Rivera Quintet?: Funk Tango
by Chip Boaz
Alto saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera presents his album, Funk Tango, under the group name “The Paquito D'Rivera Quintet?. “Quintet refers to his working group of trumpeter/valve trombonist Diego Urcola, pianist Alon Yavnai, electric bassist Oscar Stagnaro and drummer Mark Walker. The “? highlights the group's flexibility through use of additional musicians or smaller configurations. Guests include percussionist ...
Big Band Time
Label: Pimienta Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: To Brenda With Love, Danza Caracteristica, Song for Maura, Basstronaut, Who's Smokin'?, Y La
Negra Bailaba, Andalucia, A Lo Tristano, Como Un Bolero, Annette's For Sure.
Paquito D'Rivera at
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Sunday October 12 at 4:00 p.m., the Florida Marlins were the obvious focus of interest in South Florida. They were well on their way towards puncturing the Cubs’ failed dreams not far from Las Olas Blvd. and Huizenga Plaza, down the historic Riverwalk in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Unbeknownst to the undersized group of people in attendance ...
Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time
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 ...
Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time
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 ...
