Paquito D'Rivera - Havana Cafe
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Artist: Paquito D'RiveraEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1991-11-04
Music Label: Chesky Records
Product features:
- AUDIO CD
- Havana Cafe
- Jean Pauline
- The Search
- Look at You
- Improvalsation
- Contradanza
- Who's Smoking?!
- The Return
- Bossa do Brooklyn
- What Are You Doing Tomorrow Night?
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Free Music Review: Havana Cafe - A Great Place To Hang Out
Hit: 5 Stars
"Havana Cafe" was my introduction to Paquito D'Rivera's music in a small band setting. On this set D'Rivera plays alto and soprano sax, plus clarinet backed up by piano, guitar, bass, drums and percussion. The title track by musical director Danilo Perez opens the recording with a funky riff from the low end of the piano before breaking into a bright and upbeat melody; D'Rivera's alto sax solo is appropriately buoyant throughout. Guitarist Ed Cherry contributes "Jean Pauline", a smoothly grooving cha cha, and guitarist Fareed Haque brings his own "The Search", an exploratory piece of music. Two short tracks show off D'Rivera's considerable compositional skills: "Improvalsation", a duet for acoustic guitar and clarinet, and "Contradanza", a solo clarinet piece. These two works blur the lines between jazz, Latin and chamber music so effectively that trying to classify the them into any genre is futile. The highlight of "Havana Cafe" is the track "Who's Smoking?" a quick-paced bop number written by D'Rivera and featuring some excellent soloing from Ed Cherry. Although "Who's Smoking?" is dedicated to James Moody, D'Rivera is the one doing the smoking - his alto work on this track is, well, smoking. This is a killer set.
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