Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D' Rivera ( born June 4, 1948 in Havana ) is a Cuban jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
Life and work
D' Rivera had a four -year-old saxophone lessons with his father Tito D' Rivera, a classical saxophonist and conductor. Two years later he made her first appearance in public, with ten years he had an acclaimed by audiences and critics appearance at the National Theatre of Havana.
Since 1960, D' Rivera studied at the Conservatory of Havana clarinet, composition and harmony, in 1965, he was principal clarinet in a radio and television program of the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. In the same year he founded the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, which he directed two years. In addition, he founded the ensemble Irakere, which played a mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music. The group in 1978 was a sensation at the Jazz Festival in Newport and Montreux and gained two Grammy nominations and won a Grammy.
1979 D' Rivera organized the Havana Jam, an event that gathered thousands of rock and jazz musicians in Cuba's capital and has been documented in two double LPs. During a tour of Spain in 1981, he applied for asylum at the U.S. embassy. After his arrival in the U.S., he was supported by musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Amram, Mario Bauza and Bruce Lundvall, who gave him opportunities to perform as a soloist, and brought out two albums in 1981-82.
In the following years he toured with his own group, the Havana / New York Ensemble of the U.S. and South America, Europe and Japan and performed with musicians such as Carmen McRae, McCoy Tyner, Toots Thielemans, Claudio Roditi, Roger Kellaway, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Carter on. In 1988, he was among the founders of the United Nation Orchestra, with whom he went on tour ( Live at the Royal Festival Hall, 1989).
In the same year he played with the National Symphony Orchestra as a guest soloist the world premiere of Roger Kellaways David Street Blues and also appeared with other symphony orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Latin America as well as classical chamber music ensembles. He founded a number of his own bands: Paquito D' Rivera, the Big Band, Paquito D' Rivera Quintet that, the chamber music ensemble Triangulo and the calypso and salsa band Caribbean Jazz Project. In 1989, he composed for the Gerald Danovich Saxophone Quartet, the " New York Suite" in 1994 for the Aspen Wind Quintet " Aires Tropicales ".
He received in 2003 from the Berklee School of Music, an honorary doctorate, has received numerous Grammys (including for the album Portraits of Cuba in 1996 and the composition of merengue, the cellist Yo- Yo Ma aufführte 2005), and Latin Grammy Award and by the Jazz Journalists Association 2004 and 2006 honored as a clarinetist of the year. 2008 D' Rivera was awarded the Frankfurt Music Prize.
In 2005 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
Selection Discography
- Blowin ' with Jorge Dalto, Hilton Ruiz, Eddie Gomez, Ignacio Berroa, 1981
- Mariel with Randy Brecker, Hilton Ruiz, Ignacio Berroa. Daniel Ponce, Brenda Feliciano, 1982
- Why Not with Claudio Roditi, Toots Thielemans, 1984
- Explosion with Claudio Roditi, Michel Camilo, 1985
- Reunion with Uwe Felten, David Finck, Fareed Haque, Giovanni Hidalgo, Danilo Perez, Arturo Sandoval, Mark Walker, Götz A. Wörner, 1990
- Portraits of Cuba with Gustavo Bergalli, Andres Boiarsky, Thomas Christensen, John Clark, Dario Eskenazi, Lawrence Feldman, David Finck, Bob Millikan, Dick Oatts, James Pugh, Roger Rosenberg, Pernell Saturnino, Lew Soloff, David Earl Taylor, Diego Urcola, Mark Walker, 1996
- Hay Solucion, 1998
- Music from Two Worlds, 2000
- The Clarinetist, Vol 1 by Frank Chastenier, Wolfgang Haffner, Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Pernell Saturnino, Pablo Zinger, 2001
- Sons Do Brasil, 2001
- Tribute to Cal Tjader with Tony Barrero, Yayo el Indio, José Fajardo, Lawrence Farrel, Isidro Infante, Jose Mangual, Tito O'Casio, Papo Pepin, Mario Rivera, Rubén Rodríguez, Adalberto Santiago, Larry Spencer, Al Torrente, Johnny Torres, 2004
- Ribera, 2004
- The Jazz Chamber Trio with Mark Summer, Alon Yavnai, 2005
- Funk Tango with Diego Urcola, Ed Simon, Oscar Stagnaro, Alon Yavnai, Mark Walker, Pernell Saturnino, 2007
- Song for Maura, 2013, Grammy