Word: paquito
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According to a University of Pennsylvania press release, Faust will be joined on the commencement stage by Paquito D’Rivera, a Cuban musician; Lila R. Gleitman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania; Bert W. O’Malley, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine; Cyril Ramaphosa, the former secretary general of the African National Congress; and Neil deGrasse Tyson ’80, a director at the American Museum of Natural History...
...magic should result. That's what director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) was hoping for, as he embarked on his documentary-cum-music video effort, Calle 54. Trueba titled the film (54th Street) after the address of the Sony Studio where he gathered Latin music giants such as Gato Barbieri, Paquito d'Rivera and Tito Puente over 12 days in March 2000 to visually and aurally document these aging Lions of Latin music. The project proved timely, because two short months after production finished, Puente passed away, and the footage remains one of the last recorded performances the legendary percussionist...
...sterile, too clean compared to the art, which has its roots as a dance music and involves a long history of Dizzy Gillespie's blazing, sweat-soaked solos or Mongo Santamaria's pulsing congas. Just as jazz only truly manifests itself in front of an audience, its "cousin" (as Paquito d'Rivera dubs it), Latin music needs interplay with spectators. Especially when contrasted with the grainy, blurred handheld video footage that trails the musicians' everyday lives, crisp steadicam film underscores the fact that even though the musicians do deliver stellar performances, they appear slightly detached and removed from their collective...