Hendrik Meurkens and Paquito D'Rivera

Hendrik Meurkens and Paquito D'Rivera - Bluesette: https://t.co/vba9vghRL5 via @YouTube

— jazzvideoguy (@jazzvideoguy) 9 de junho de 2017

Cuban-born Paquito D'Rivera

Cuban-born Paquito D'Rivera Composes Diplomacy and Art With His Sax https://t.co/EsLT4wGizI @jazzwax #Jazz pic.twitter.com/KTXMsIwIHA

— Cuba Journal (@CubaJournal) 7 de abril de 2017

Paquito D'Rivera - Portraits of Cuba - "La Bella Cubana"

#PaquitoD'Rivera & #ChanoDominguez

Paquito D'Rivera & Chano Dominguez " #Jazz At Quartier Latin " #jazzmusic https://t.co/e54dAXAU5C vía @YouTube

— Cuba Sin Fronteras (@CubaSinFrontera) 11 de dezembro de 2016

Paquito D'Rivera

Our review of Paquito D'Rivera's recent collaboration with Mexican singer and composer Armando Manzanero. https://t.co/QrcxyeeihE

— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) May 24, 2016

Paquito D'Rivera, Wooster Symphony Orchestra

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space 

Sat, Apr 2, 2016 7:30pm

At the very first Grammy Awards ceremony, held in 1959, the recording of Nelson Riddle's 11-movement work, Cross Country Suite -- featuring clarinetist Buddy DeFranco with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra -- was awarded "Best Original Instrumental Composition." After falling into obscurity for more than half a century, the full work will finally receive its New York City live premiere, featuring clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera.

Celebrating its 100th anniversary season, the Wooster Symphony Orchestra, based at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, is organizing the performance. The orchestra's music director and conductor, Jeffrey Lindberg, who is an active transcriber and editor of jazz music, has transcribed the original Riddle/DeFranco recording (and edited the few remaining original manuscripts) to create this full edition of the suite.

The work, which was recorded on the DOT label by Riddle and DeFranco, received only one printing on LP. Although DeFranco and Riddle performed two or three of the movements at The Hollywood Bowl in the early 1960s, the complete work did not receive its live premiere until 2007, a performance that featured Buddy DeFranco with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Lindberg conducting. Subsequent complete performances included Victor Goines with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra in 2009 (Evanston Ill.), and Paquito D'Rivera with the Wooster Symphony Orchestra in 2011 (Wooster, Ohio). In 2008 the Riddle estate had the original recording re-mastered and released on a limited edition compact disc by Universal Music.

The concert will also feature the world premiere of Peter Mowrey's Second Century Overture; Jindo Arirang Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring composer/pianist Jung Yoon Wie; and Mozart's Exsultate jubilate, featuring soprano Susan Wallin.

from: http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/9122/Music/wooster-symphony-bravo100fest-w-paquito-drivera

Paquito D'Rivera, Chano Dominguez - Quartier Latin.COM

Concierto realizado en el Teatro Real De Madrid,
Chano Dominguez: Piano,
Paquito D´rivera: Saxofón alto y Clarinete,
Angá Díaz: percusión,
Marc Miralta: Batería,
Mario Rossy: Contra Bajo,
Israel Suárez "Piraña": Percusión Falmenca.

Tania Maria, Paquito D'Rivera And More Bring Latin Romance To Piano Jazz

Courtesy of the Artist - Tania Maria sings Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Wave" on this Latin episode of Piano Jazz.

by GRANT JACKSON

On this episode of Piano Jazz, Marian McPartland's longtime friend Murray Horwitz shares highlights from the Latin side of Piano Jazz with performers from South of the Border and the Caribbean.

Horwitz delves into the unmistakable rhythm and romance of the Latin side of jazz with highlights from the past 30 years of Piano Jazz. Features include host Marian McPartland in performance with Latin superstarsPaquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Danilo Perez and Tania Maria, and McPartland adds a dash of that Spanish tinge to solo performances of her tunes "Stranger in a Dream" and "With You in Mind." - Originally broadcast Feb. 8, 2011.

More About Murray Horwitz

The multifaceted Horwitz has served as vice president of Cultural Programming at NPR, where he started the hit quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! and co-hosted NPR's Basic Jazz Record Library with A.B. Spellman, and still serves as the movie maven for NPR's Talk of the Nation. He is the co-author of the Tony Award-winning musical Ain't Misbehavin', a lyricist whose credits include popular songs for John Harbison's opera The Great Gatsby, and the writer of a pops concert based on the music of George and Ira Gershwin.

His new play, RFK: The Journey to Justice (written with Jonathan Estrin) toured the U.S. last year, and can be heard on public radio stations across the country. Horwitz has also served as the director of the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Listen to on > http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133681415/tania-maria-paquito-drivera-and-more-bring-latin-romance-to-piano-jazz

From: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133681415/tania-maria-paquito-drivera-and-more-bring-latin-romance-to-piano-jazz&sc=nl&cc=jn-20110213

Paquito D'Rivera's "Panamericana Suite" (MCG Jazz)

Few jazz artists have been as musically omnivorous—and dazzlingly accomplished—as the Cuban-born alto saxophone and clarinet virtuoso Paquito D'Rivera. Equally at home performing bebop, tango, and classical as well as Afro-Cuban styles, D'Rivera displays his mastery of many genres on his new CD, Panamericana Suite.

Recorded live at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild for MCG Jazz, Panamericana Suite takes its name from a piece commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center that D'Rivera premiered in 2000. A stunning cultural synthesis encompassing North, Central, and South America leavened with a Caribbean rhythmic sensibility, the project reflects D'Rivera's embracing musical vision.

“I am an eclectic person," D'Rivera says. “I grew up the son of a classical saxophonist who loved jazz. He loved to put on Heifetz and Mario Lanza, and then listen to Benny Goodman and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Growing up in Havana, Latin American music was in the air."

The new CD boasts an all-star international cast, with Pedro Martinez (batas, timbales, vocals), Pernell Saturnino (percussion), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), and Mark Walker (bass) comprising the supple rhythm section.

Also featured in the Panamericana Orchestra are pianist Alon Yavnai; Dana Leong on trombone and cello; Hector del Curto, bandoneon; Andy Narell on steel pans; Dave Samuels, vibraphone and marimba; trumpeter Diego Urcola; the Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda; and the Puerto Rican lyric soprano Brenda Feliciano.

complete on  >>  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=70056

Born on the island of Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera began his career as a child prodigy...

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 6:30 – 8:30pm

Harlem Speaks
Paquito D'Rivera, Composer/Saxophonist/Clarinetist
Location: NJMH Visitors Center, (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C)

Born on the island of Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera began his career as a child prodigy. A restless musical whiz during his teen years, Mr. D’Rivera created various original and ground-breaking musical ensembles. As a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, he directed that group for two years, while at the same time playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra.

He eventually went on to premiere several works by notable Cuban composers with the same orchestra. Additionally, he was a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music never before heard, Irakere toured extensively throughout America and Europe, won several Grammy nominations (1979, 1980) and a Grammy (1979).

Paquito D'Rivera is the first artist to win Latin Grammy's in both Classical and Latin Jazz categories (2003), for Stravinsky’s Historia del Soldado (L'Histoire du Soldat) and Brazilian Dreams with the New York Voices. The other historic recipient who has won duo Grammy's in both Classical and Jazz categories is Wynton Marsalis.

D’Rivera is a recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, presented at the White House by President George W. Bush in 2005, and was named one of the 2005 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Masters. While Paquito D'Rivera's discography includes over 30 solo albums in Jazz, Bebop and Latin music, his contributions to classical music are impressive. They include solo performances with the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

He has also performed with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the Costa Rica National Symphony, the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, the Bronx Arts Ensemble, and the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, among others. In addition to his extraordinary performing career as an instrumentalist, Paquito D'Rivera has rapidly gained a reputation as a dynamic composer.

The prestigious music house, Boosey and Hawkes, is the exclusive publisher of Mr. D'Rivera’s compositions. Recognition of his significant compositional skills came in 2007 with the award of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition, and the 2007-2008 appointment as Composer-In-Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. His works often reveal his widespread and eclectic musical interests, ranging from Afro-Cuban rhythms and melodies, including influences encountered in his many travels, and back to his classical origins.

Also a gifted author, Mr. D’Rivera’s book, My Sax Life, was published in Spain by the prestigious literary house, Seix Barral, and contains a prologue by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Acclaimed by the public and critics alike, the English edition was released by Northwestern University Press in November 2005. The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is proud to feature one of the most respected and beloved artists in jazz this evening for what promises to be a discussion full of fun by a free-spirited virtuoso artist who puts profound feeling into his music, no matter the style or genre.
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from "Calle 54"
Paquito D'Rivera - alto saxophone, clarinet; Diego Urcola - trumpet; Aquiles Baez - guitar; Raul Jaurena - bandoneón; Dave Samuels - vibraphone, marimba; Dario Eskenazi - piano; Oscaro Stagnaro - bass; Mark Walker - drums; Pernell Saturnino - percussion; Milton Cardona - voice and batá (iyá); José Fernández - batá (okónkolo); Abi Holliday - batá (itótele).

Paquito D'Rivera Joins The Chicago Jazz Ensemble In Benny Goodman Celebration...

Whenever multi-Grammy Award winner and NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera hits the stage, you can be sure you're hearing the best in Swing and Latin Jazz! Celebrate the holiday season when Jon Faddis and The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (The CJE) present the 10th American Heritage Jazz Series featuring Paquito D’Rivera and The Chicago Jazz Ensemble: Commemorating Goodman, Celebrating Swing & Latin Jazz, on Friday, December 12, 2008, at 8:00 pm at the Harris Theater, 205 East Randolph, Chicago. In addition, Faddis and music aficionado, writer and broadcaster Neil Tesser will present a pre-concert conversation about the evening’s performance at 7:20 pm.

“Paquito and I first met on the bandstand when we both were sitting in with Dizzy Gillespie in the 1980s,” said Faddis. “We continued to work together with Diz and, of course, with Diz’s United Nation Orchestra, for which we each served as music director over the years. I’m excited to once again share the stage with Paquito, who is a master of classical, jazz and Caribbean-infused music. He is tremendous fun and a great friend. With The Chicago Jazz Ensemble, these renditions of Benny Goodman’s music will definitely shine.”

Of Benny Goodman, Faddis says, “There is so much to commemorate with Goodman, not the least of which is the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert which marked the first time the bandstand was integrated. It was absolutely brave and remarkable – to prioritize artistry and to respect musicians, whatever their race, above whatever prejudice and social pressures exist. That’s deeply admirable. Second, the concert represented the first real moment when jazz was presented at Carnegie Hall. Third, the night was a tremendous success, changing the way audiences both heard and saw jazz, and what can be achieved.”

Faddis recorded with Benny Goodman in a big band session in New York in the 1970s; however, the recording has yet to be released. In 1992, he presented a concert honoring Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.

Born on the island of Cuba, Paquito D’Rivera began his career as a child prodigy. A restless musical genius during his teen years, he created various original and ground-breaking musical ensembles. As a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, he directed that group for two years, while at the same time playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. He eventually went on to premiere several works by notable Cuban composers with the same orchestra. Additionally, he was a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music never before heard, Irakere toured extensively throughout America and Europe, won several Grammy nominations (1979, 1980) and took home a Grammy in 1979.

While D’Rivera’s discography includes over 30 solo albums in jazz and Latin music, his contributions to classical music also are impressive. They include solo performances with the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. In addition to his extraordinary performing career as an instrumentalist, D'Rivera has rapidly gained a reputation as a dynamic composer. D’Rivera is artist-in-residence at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and serves as a member of the board of directors of many influential artistic organizations in the United States, impacting both classical and jazz musical idioms. He has served as Artistic Director of Jazz Programming at the New Jersey Chamber Music Society and continues as Artistic Director of the famous world-class Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta Del Este in Uruguay. Additionally, he is Artistic Director of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, which celebrates Washington, DC's rich Jazz history and native son Duke Ellington. D’Rivera’s book, My Sax Life, was published in Spain by the prestigious literary house, Seix Barral, and contains a prologue by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Acclaimed by the public and critics alike, the English edition was released by Northwestern University Press in November 2005.

The Chicago Jazz Ensemble’s 10th anniversary series also includes The Great American Songbook featuring The Chicago Jazz Ensemble’s Bobbi Wilsyn, Friday, February 20, 2009, and The Art of the Composer: Music by William Russo and Frank Foster on Friday, March 20, 2009. On June 5, 2009, at 8 pm, The CJE – with MacArthur-Award winner Regina Carter as special guest on violin – takes the stage at Symphony Center for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Echoes of Nations: Dvoøák Festival in a performance of Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington: “Black, Brown and Beige” and “The New Orleans Suite.” In addition, The CJE travels to Carrollton, GA, for a performance at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 7:30 pm.

The Chicago Jazz EnsembleTM is: JON FADDIS, Artistic Director & trumpet; alto saxophones, DAN NICHOLSON and JARRARD HARRIS; tenor saxophones, PAT MALLINGER and ROB DENTY; baritone saxophone, BRIAN SJOERDINGA; trombones, AUDREY MORRISON, TIM COFFMAN, TRACY KIRK, and ANDY BAKER; trumpets, MARK OLEN, LARRY BOWEN, ART HOYLE and PHAREZ WHITTED; guitar, FRANK DAWSON; bass, DAN ANDERSON; Music Director & drums, DANA HALL; vocals, BOBBI WILSYN. For The CJE's December 12 concert, Tito Carrillo will be substituting for Larry Bowen on trumpet, and Ryan Cohan will be on piano.
http://www.jazzreview.com/article/review-6668.html