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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SAXOPHONIST Paquito D'Rivera, Cuba's most recent gift to American music, is Latin jazz's newest talent as well as the most recent example of the exchange between Cuban and American music...
...bossa nova toward the end, and Paquito, who couldn't chill out if he tried, swings with case. "Brussels" is a good example of the creators' different personalities; Although the tune is a slow jazz ballad, Paquito is still able to incorporate complicated eighth-note phrasings with an Afro-Latin emphasis, while Thielemans relies on direct but well-embellished lines to get his point across. If Toots is a Valium, then Paquito is aguardiente...
Although Paquito does some more Latin-type tunes, including Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca", the best--and best-performed--Latin tune on the album is "Samba for Carmen", which Paquito dedicated to jazz singer Carmen McRae, Drummer Portinho, late of Tania Maria, drives the whole thing as if he were still in the Rio de Janeiro samba school, Padre Miguel, and fellow Brazilian Claudio Roditi, who has the unenviable position of following Paquito in order of solos, still acquits himself quite well on trumpet...
...most outstanding teachers of Latin poetry that this country has produced in this century," said. Brown University Classies Professor Michael C. Putnam '54, a former student of Elder. "He was a superb scholar and instructor...
After a brief private interview with President Bok, the Secretary and a crowd of about 35 students heard a short performance by the Radcliffe Pitches and three Latin American classical guitar pieces played by Richard J. Chavez '87 in the large ballroom of 17 Quincy St., formerly the University president's house...