Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards
2023 – I Missed You Too! won Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album, 24th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
2023 – Concerto Venezolano won Best Contemporary Classical Composition, 24th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
2022 – Latin Grammy Trustees Award from the Latin Recording Academy at the 23rd Latin Grammy Awards
2015 – Jazz Meets the Classics won Best Latin Jazz Album, 16th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2014 – Song for Maura won Best Latin Jazz Album, 15th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2013 – Song For Maura won Best Latin Jazz Album, 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards
2011 – Panamericana Suite won Best Latin Jazz Album, 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2011 – Panamericana Suite won Best Classical Contemporary Composition, 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2008 Funk Tango won Best Latin Jazz Album, 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards
2005 – Riberas won Best Classical Album 2005, 6th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2004 – Merengue won Best Instrumental Composition 2004, 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards
2003 – Brazilian Dreams won Best Latin Jazz Album 2003, 4th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2003 – Historia del Soldado won Best Classical Album 2003, 4th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2001 – Paquito D’Rivera Quintet, Live at the Blue Note won Best Latin Jazz Album, 2nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Award
2000 – Tropicana Nights won Latin Jazz Album 2000, 1st Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
1996 – Portraits of Cuba won Best Jazz Performance, 39th Annual GRAMMY Awards
1979 – Irakere won Best Latin Recording 1979, 22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards
Mr. D’Rivera has also received sixteen Grammy nominations and seventeen Latin Grammy nominations. Available – more extensive list of awards and honors
Awards / Honors
2023 – Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society from the Longy School of Music of Bard College
2008 – D’Rivera receives President’s Award from the International Association for Jazz Educators.
2007 – 2008 – D’Rivera appointed “Composer in Residence” at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
2007 – D’Rivera receives a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award for Music Composition
2007 – The Kennedy Center and The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Series for Artistic Excellence, Living Jazz Legend Award
2006 – Jazz Journalists Association, Clarinet of the Year 2006 award
2005 – National Medal for the Arts, presented at the White House by President George W. Bush on November 10th, 2005
2005 – National Endowment for the Arts – Jazz Masters recipient
2004 – Jazz Journalists Association, Clarinet of the Year 2004 award
2003 – Doctorate Honoris Causa in Music, Berklee School of Music
2002 – Outstanding Editorial Column, National Assoc. of Hispanic Publications
Available – more extensive list of awards and honors
