Paquito d'rivera News

Paquito D'Rivera is equally at home in the jazz and classical worlds, a fact he showcased during his performance at the 2009 Tanglewood Jazz Festival.

The spirit of collaboration is the heart of 'Danzon,' with Latin music, jazz improvisation and dance on the program.

"It's, like, overwhelming," David Kalwa said, looking around the gilded East Room.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:52 a.m. WASHINGTON Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house - well, really the tent.

Sold-out LPO concert will feature acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma Saturday, October 17, 2009 After piling up 10 Grammy awards and three decades of critical raves, cellist Yo-Yo Ma can play where he wants, when he wants and with anyone he chooses.

The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art hosted its first Sensational Sunday Series of the fall season Sunday entitled "A Musical Melting Pot" with The Fine Arts String Quartet of Mississippi.

When it comes to authentic Cuban Jazz, The Elio Villafranca Quintet brings you only the best.

Wake Forest University's craze for Cuba will take some unexpected turns on Oct. 13. That's when the Luna Negra Dance Theater of Chicago will perform Eduardo Vilaro's Danzon in Reynolds Auditorium, teaming up with the Turtle Island String Quartet and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera. Danzon "reinvents and reinvigorates traditional and quintessentially ...

WBGO celebrates 30 years with the annual Champions of Jazz Benefit concert honoring two true jazz champions: nine-time Grammy-Award winner and NEA Jazz Master, Paquito D'Rivera , and the venerable jazz industry authority, DownBeat Magazine, celebrating its 75th anniversary.

This date is drummer Dafnis Prieto's fourth as leader and second on his own label, Dafnison Music.

The Front Range Chamber Players will open its 25th anniversary season with music for woodwind ensemble, featuring 'Aires Tropicales' by Cuban jazz legend Paquito D'Rivera. The 2009-10 series of concerts begins at 7 p.m. Sunday in the group's new home at St.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.

SOURCE: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes I've submitted my take on this year's Tanglewood Jazz Festival to JazzTimes.

Tanglewood's Jazz Festival, which garnishes Labor-Day weekend each year, has earned space in the pantheon of this most American music.

Those elaborate, fancy picnics that music lovers often enjoy on the lawn at Tanglewood - spreading out a blanket and setting out fancy linens, bouquets of flowers, crystal wine glasses and other accoutrements - aren't just for symphony concerts.

The Tanglewood Jazz Festival brings some of the genre's best-known and classiest musicians to Lenox at the end of every summer.

Columbia native Alex Brown was born to perform. He took his first piano lesson at age 6. Now 22, Mr.

JAZZ FOUND A PLACE in more than the president's BlackBerry when the first lady invited some 150 young music high school students to the White House this summer for an afternoon workshop led by Wynton Marsalis and four other members of the distinguished trumpeter's musical family.

Temps Records Spain Josep Soto is a Barcelona-based composer and guitarist of immense promise.