Word: paquito
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Ultimately, this fascination led to an historic deal between the Cuban government and the American record company Columbia. Irakere was signed and recorded two Columbia records with promises for more group efforts as well as solo projects for Paquito, Chucho and Arturo...
...studio albums and a live album, playing with American jazz musicians he had heard in Cuba as well as two musicians, drummer Ignacio Berroa and conguero Daniel Ponce, who had defected to the United States in a mass exodus to Florida some years earlier and had played with Paquito in Cuba...
...latest effort, "Why Not!", a collaboration with Belgian-born harmonica player Toots Thielemans, which showcases some of Paquito's strongest playing since he came to the States. D'Rivera, befitting his Cuban/jazz and Irakere backgrounds, broadens his horizons in his third effort as a leader, drawing on the myriad influences found in his multicultural second home...
...Paquito brings ideas from gospel, funk (el funketeo in Paquito's (Cubanglish) Brazil, Cuba and the Dominican Republic into the album, while Tanenbaum a laidback, scholarly-appearing man whom D'Rivera ails a "Vallum", flavors the album with the exotic "Waltz for Sonny", which is based on guitar figures common to the Venezuelan joropo...
...Brussels in the Rain" is a jazz ballad that switches to medium-tempo 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...