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...Rivera, who played alto say and flute, was, along with keyboardist/bandleader Jesus "Chucho" Valdes and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, the heart and soul of the group. A. fiery, technically proficient saxophonist, D'Rivera raised the eyebrows of fans, critics and record company executives everywhere Irakere toured...
...suit of an aficionado práctico (practicing fan), Plaza had fought bulls as an amateur in Ecuador. Now a non-practicing fan, he sat in a jeep on rolling fields, to watch the artful passes at the young beasts made by his old friend of the cape, Jesus ("Chucho") Solorzano. Leathery Bullfighter Juan Silveti rolled up, slapped the President on the back, roared: "How's it going, Plaza old boy?" Plaza grinned. "I have a lot of friends in Mexico," he beamed, "who are bound to me by the craziness of bullfights." Later, there was an informal buffet...
...Chucho Reyes quickly covers big sheets of Chinese paper with whorls of screaming paint representing prancing horses (see cut), proud cocks, or wooden-faced little angels. To these images, Chucho sometimes adds impressions of Adam & Eve, fallen women or skeletons. All spring from Mexican folklore...
Curious Course. Ten years ago Chucho Reyes set up a school in Guadalajara to train local children in painting, sculpture, bookbinding, glass blowing, dramatic writing, silver and tin work. Reyes himself knew nothing of these techniques, hired no teachers, ran the school in highly unacademic fashion. ("That is why they made such pretty things...
...Chucho used to wrap his students' work in Chinese paper. He began to make careless doodles on the wrappers. These attracted the attention of Diego and Frida Rivera, who often liked the doodles on the wrapping better than the artistry inside. So Chucho tried marketing them, at 5 pesos ($1) apiece. Today Reyes' swooshing pictures bring 50 to 80 pesos in Mexico, as high as $50 in Manhattan. Chucho sometimes reinforces his doodling with paint splashes, animal footprints or droppings from his two pet doves...