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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...
...Rivera himself spends most of the tune in the upper register of his alto, getting a soprano-like sound from it. His raw and driving post-bop sound combines with Roditi's bright, powerful trumpet as well as Portinho's samba beat and bassist Lincoln Goines, who is another Tania Maria veteran, uses his instrument to duplicate the sound of the surdo drum, the heart and soul of the samba...
...Feynman that leaps directly off the page is impish and aggressively unpretentious. One of his favorite words is "stuff." He rattles off his adventures in physics, biology, art and music (he once played a sort of frying pan in a Brazilian samba band) and has the nerve to describe himself as "a one-sided guy." He talks offhandedly of his associations with Einstein, Bohr and Oppenheimer and enthusiastically about discussing gambling odds with Nick the Greek. His life has been full of unforgettable characters, including his father, a salesman in the uniform business...
...million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched fists and chanting "Diretas já!" Yet at times the six-hour rally had the flavor of carnaval, with a hot-air balloon, a laser light show and strains of a samba beat. Shortly after nightfall, politicians and major Brazilian entertainers brought the crowd to fever pitch with passionate speeches and songs. Declared Leonel Brizola, governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro: "The history of Brazil will be divided between what happened before and what happened after this demonstration...
...next album will include a song written for the great jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, and yes, when he plays the tune live, he is often asked whether Samba for Carmen was inspired by the star of those '40s musicals who wore fruit on her hats. He is also exploring the tricky intricacies of Venezuelan music, which remains relatively insulated from outside influences and whose rhythms he describes as "very complicated, very interesting...