Several years ago I attended a performance at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola starring Paquito D'Rivera and a new ensemble that he had organized dubbed the Panamericana orchestra. It was a notable evening and ...

It’s truly impressive when you can listen to one musician for more than 40 years and still hear something new. Paquito D’Rivera has been a major figure in the worlds of modern jazz, afro cuban jazz, ...

Since 1987, the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild has been bringing many high caliber jazz performers to the Pittsburgh area to perform live, in front of enthusiastic audiences. Those who have graced the ...

Latin Grammy-winning Paraguayan guitar master Berta Rojas and 11-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera are two of the most celebrated artists on their ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Orion Ensemble will bring back its “Tribute to Paquito D'Rivera,” ...

The New Jersey Symphony just proved Duke Ellington’s old adage true once again: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. The group’s concert last Thursday at the New Jersey Performing Arts ...

Since emigrating from Cuba a little more than 30 years ago, saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera has made the North Bergen area his home and he wouldn't change that for anything. "I'm a few blocks from a ...

Paquito D’Rivera was just 10 years old when he wowed the audience at Cuba’s National Theater Orchestra with his saxophone. Over his lifetime, the sax became his muse. He’d win his first Grammy award ...

The first thing that comes to mind when you mention Cuban saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera is a fiery big band unleashing a polyrhythmic cascade of Latin jazz bravado. After all, D’Rivera became famous in ...

With the performances that compose Big Band Time, Cuban alto saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera offers his listeners a chance to hear arrangements of previously recorded material for that ...

Anyone who’s heard Paquito D’Rivera even once knows about his explosive virtuosity: on both clarinet and alto sax the Cuban emigre boasts consummate technique, infused with the jumpy, mercurial fervor ...