The verdict is in – the recently released album, El Duelo, is getting rave reviews! This unique album is a piano-less Latin Jazz quartet with Diego Urcola’s Quartet featuring Paquito D’Rivera. We’ve included below some of our favorite reviews. With over 30 years of collaboration, Paquito D’Rivera and Diego Urcola are well-matched in tackling an… [Read More]
Masterclass Volume 3 By Paquito D’Rivera
First Clarinet – Plateau And then, the clarinet came along. My father imported again from a from Paris, a clarinet for me, a Plateau clarinet. A Plateau clarinet, it’s a covered hole instrument because my fingers were too skinny it could not cover the holes of a regular clarinet. So, I learned with a covered… [Read More]
Masterclass Volume 2 by Paquito D’Rivera
Let’s Talk About the Saxophone Now the saxophone. The alto saxophone wonderful instrument in those days it was not supposed to uh I don’t “Steve Lacey” (extraordinary doubler), so you’re not supposed to play only the soprano you know… you have to know how to play something else. So, my father gave me an alto… [Read More]