Word: riverae
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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...
...antagonisms could not stem Cuban interest in American jazz. Even the term "jazz" was considered counterrevolutionary during Castro's early years, but Cuban musicians continued to keep up with the latest developments by passing smuggled cassettes from one end of the island to another. And this is how D'Rivera came to truly appreciate jazz...
...child prodigy who sat in with Cuba's best musicians as early as the age of seven, D'Rivera went on to become a founding member of the Cuban super band, Irakere. Founded in the early 1970s, Irakere (whose name is a Yoruba meaning forest), an II-piece aggregation that drew on Afro-Cuban religion and folklore as well as jazz, rock and even classical music, was typical of the eclectic approach many Cuban bands took following the revolution...
...from San Salvador, the atmosphere was tentative and tense. And when the two parties came down from their hilltop retreat after more than twelve hours of talks, they seemed no closer to peace than before. In a brief statement summarizing the day's progress, San Salvador Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, one of two intermediaries, reported that the two sides had agreed on "a period of tranquillity on the nation's highways between Dec. 22 and Jan. 3." But Rivera y Damas said nothing of any larger agreements or a full Christmas truce and only made a general...
Other personalities are a little more adventuresome: the sedate Dick Cavett appears as a circus acrobat, Liv Ulmann becomes a, Erte' print, Jean Marsh strips down to a mega-clcavaged chef, and Chita Rivera reincarnates as Jean Harlow. Every one of them wearing red shoes and synopsized by an National Enquirer cutline. Two particularly obnoxious examples...