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Dizzy was probably the dearest jazz musician ever. He was so generous not only creating a great career for himself, but he enabled others to make their own career, me included.

I remember when he called me in , he was supposed to do a two month tour with his quintet and Toots Thielemans was supposed to be his guest artist. And I had recently arrived in this country and then he called me. He was going to be my guest artist.

You want to sub for him? So this is how generous Dizzy was, and what a wonderful person, fantastic musician He will be remembered forever. Irakere 2 signed by Paquito. Music is an abstract art mainly. You don't have to call your music anything. I remember once I asked Jaco Pastorius when I met him many years ago, he was playing something, one of those things that he plays, and do you know what he was playing?

That thing that Jaco Pastorius played, I don't know He had a lot of rock 'n' roll, had a lot of classical He called it music. Irakere 2 back cover signed by Arturo Sandoval. Equally proficient in jazz or classical music, Paquito grew up in Havana, Cuba and his father, a classical saxophonist, was a seminal influence. He was a classical saxophone player. He never had the ability to improvise, but he loved the music of Ellington and especially the Goodman Orchestra He preferred to call it swing.

So I was like eight or nine years old and I was pretty confused. Paquito D'Rivera's fourth album since his defection from Cuba is a refreshingly eclectic project, roaming all over Latin America, North America and even Belgium for players, sources and inspiration.

The leadoff track, "Gdansk," is a tough, bumping electric jazz rallying cry for Lech Walesa and his Polish labor union. The record is graced by the inimitable harmonica, guitar and whistling of Toots Thielemans ; D'Rivera's tune "Brussels In the Rain" is a most comfortable vehicle for the Belgian.

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