Word: paquito
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Player Paquito D'Rivera soars high on an expatriate dream
...leave the country to find home, and he had to be careful to give no sign at all of his travel plans. Passing through Madrid on a band tour in the spring of 1980, Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban born and Cuban bred, was at the airport, bag packed as usual for another gig. Inside his luggage, however, was a carefully weighted assortment of stones, an army boot and a piece of a baseball bat. By the time the bag was stashed on the plane, D'Rivera was on his way into Madrid, planning his route...
...Paquito D'Rivera, 35, may sound like a propagandist's dream, but the bopped-up, romantic, salty and sensuous jazz that he makes recognizes no real political boundary. It has roots equally in the hothouse Latin rhythms of his homeland and in the high-flying horns of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Lee Konitz. Adapting them, molding them and memorably melding all these elements has got D'Rivera three solid Columbia albums, of which the most recent, Live at Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand...