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9-time Grammy winner Paquito D’Rivera at The Prizery on April 11
SoVaNow.com / April 02, 2010
The Prizery’s Chastain Theatre has hosted Grammy winners before – but not someone with nine Grammys to his credit, a Jazz Master Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and a National Medal of the Arts.Paquito D’Rivera and his six-piece band perform Sunday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. Saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, composer – the NEA calls D’Rivera “the consummate multinational ambassador, creating and promoting a cross-culture of music that moves effortlessly among jazz, Latin, and classical.” Born in Havana, Cuba, D’Rivera sought asylum in the United States in 1981. A child prodigy, he performed at age 10 with the National Theater Orchestra, studied at the Havana Conservatory of Music and, at only 17, became a soloist with the Cuban National Symphony. He co-founded the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna and was the band’s conductor for two years. In 1973, he was co-director of Irakere, a highly popular ensemble whose explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music had never before been heard. The band toured extensively and in 1979 won a Grammy. Since defecting, he has toured the globe. He has more than 30 solo albums to his credit. In 1988, he was a founding member of the United Nation Orchestra, a 15-piece ensemble organized by Dizzy Gillespie to showcase the fusion of Latin and Caribbean influences with jazz. In 1991, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Carnegie Hall for his contributions to Latin music. That same year, as part of the band Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nation Orchestra, D’Rivera was featured with James Moody, Slide Hampton, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Arturo Sandoval, Steve Turre, and others on the Grammy Award-winning recording, Live at the Royal Festival Hall. He has appeared at, or written commissions for, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the National Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra, Simón Bolivar Symphonic Orchestra and Montreal’s Gerald Danovich Saxophone Quartet. His memoir, “My Sax Life,” was released in 2005. If D’Rivera’s spicy and wide-ranging music doesn’t whet one’s appetite for a night out, Molasses Grill in Halifax is sweetening the pot by offering a four-course, set-price Cuban dinner before the show to complement the performance. Reservations are recommended for the one seating at 5 p.m.: 476- 6265. Honoring D’Rivera’s heritage and influence, chef and co-owner Steven Schopen is serving sopa de cabeza pescado (fish soup with lime and noodles); tamales (stuffed with chicken, bell peppers, eggs, raisins, olives and capers); whole roasted Cuban suckling pig (served with black beans, rice with sofrito, and tostones with mojo sauce); and Havana coconut ice cream (served with a warm run and coconut pudding). D’Rivera’s sextet’s appearance is made possible by underwriting from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Ms. D. Productions. The Prizery receives support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. For show tickets, call 572-8339 or visit http://www.prizery.com. |
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