Paquito D'Rivera - Manteca (Live (Remastered) '2022

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Abejorro (Live Remastered) (10:37)
2. Nocturno En La Celda (Live Remastered) (09:57)
3. Manteca (Live Remastered) (06:01)
4. I Remember Diz (Live Remastered) (06:56)
5. A Night In Tunisia (Live Remastered) (05:10)
6. Rhapsody In Blue / Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So (Live Remastered)
(11:40)
7. Pa Bebo (Live Remastered) (06:28)


 moreIn 1973, he joined eight members of the Orchestra Cubana de Musica
Moderna to form Irakere. The group, which fused jazz, rock, classical, and
traditional Cuban music, became the first post-Castro Cuban group to sign with
an American record label. Along with the band, D'Rivera toured the world and
Irakere became a top-rated jazz ensemble. In 1979, the group joined American
jazz and rock performers for a music festival, Havana Jam, that was recorded and
released the following year. In 1981, D'Rivera defected from Cuba and moved to
the United States. Before long, he was playing with such American musicians as
Dizzy Gillespie, David Amram, and Mario Bauza. According to Bauza, D'Rivera was
"the only musician I know on the scene playing the real Latin jazz, all others
are playing Afro-Cuban jazz."

D'Rivera's debut solo album, Blowin', released in June 1981, was followed by
Mariel a year later. Time magazine wrote, "The bopped-up, romantic, salty and
sensuous jazz that he makes recognizes no real political boundary. It has its
roots equally in the hothouse Latin rhythms of his homeland and in the
high-flying horns of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Lee Konitz." In 1988,
D'Rivera was invited to become a charter member of Gillespie's 15-piece all-star
group, the United Nations Orchestra. The same year, he was a guest soloist with
the National Symphony Orchestra for their world-premiere performance of Roger
Kellaway's David Street Blues at the John F. Kennedy Center. He continued to be
involved with a variety of projects. In addition to performing with the Paquito
D'Rivera Big Band, the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet, the chamber music group
Triangulo, and the calypso and salsa band the Caribbean Jazz Project, he began
to accept commissions to compose for chamber groups and orchestras. In 1989, he
composed "New York Suite" for the Gerald Danovich Saxophone Quartet, and five
years later he composed "Aires Tropicales" for the Aspen Wind Quintet. The piece
has subsequently been performed by at least four quintets.

In 1997, D'Rivera's album Portraits of Cuba received a Grammy Award as Best
Latin Jazz Performance. During the summer of 1999, he collaborated with
Germany's Chamber Orchestra Werneck in a series of programs, D'Rivera Meets
Mozart. D'Rivera was artist-in-residence for the New Jersey Performing Arts
Commission and artistic director in charge of jazz programming for the New
Jersey Chamber Music Society. His autobiography, My Saxual Life, was published
by the Spanish book publisher Seix Barral, along with a novel, En Tus Brazos
Morenos, scheduled to follow shortly afterwards.

The album Live at the Blue Note appeared in the spring of 2000, and Habanera
followed in early 2001. In 2001, D'Rivera released The Clarinetist, Vol. 1, his
first recording to rely exclusively on the strengths of its woodwind namesake.
Arriving in 2002, Brazilian Dreams, a live recording featuring the New York
Voices and trumpeter Claudio Roditi, won the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album.
It was followed in 2003 by the swinging Big Band Time. Several more
well-received albums followed in 2004, including Music of Both Worlds, Tribute
to Cal Tjader, and Riberas, the latter of which took home the Latin Grammy for
Best Classical Album. The Grammy-nominated Jazz Chamber Trio followed in 2005.
In 2007 D'Rivera delivered Funk Tango, which took home another Grammy, this time
for Best Latin Jazz Album. Two years later, he teamed with clarinetist Sabine
Meyer for Jazz Clazz.

In 2010, D'Rivera released the expansive live album Panamericana Suite, which
won two Latin Grammys for Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Classical Contemporary
Composition. D'Rivera then joined Paraguayan classical guitar virtuoso Berta
Rojas for Día y Medio: A Day and a Half in 2012. In 2013, D'Rivera paid
homage to his mother with the Brazilian-themed trio album Songs for Maura, which
also won the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. A year later, he combined his
love of jazz and classical with Jazz Meets the Classics, featuring adventurous
reworkings of compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and others. Released in
2015, Aires Tropicales featured D'Rivera backed by the Quinteto Cimarron string
quartet. In 2016, D'Rivera showcased the music of storied Mexican singer,
pianist, and composer Armando Manzanero on Paquito & Manzanero. ~ Craig Harris

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