Paquito D’Rivera Plays the Music of Chick Corea: Jazz Musician in New York

About Paquito D’Rivera Plays the Music of Chick Corea

Paquito D’Rivera Plays the Music of Chick Corea centers on the alto saxophonist and clarinetist’s long relationship to Corea’s writing, heard in performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center. D’Rivera emerged as a key voice in Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz, with early roots in the Cuban ensemble Irakere and decades leading his own groups. In this program he treats Corea’s repertoire as material for close reading, shifting between swing, Latin pulse, and classical-inflected phrasing. The playing favors precision and line over display.