Cuban bandleader/reeds player Paquito D'Rivera was a child prodigy heavily influenced by the recordings of Parker and Coltrane. In the '70s, he worked with Irakere, a Cuban collective that mixed jazz, rock, classical, and traditional Cuban music to smoldering effect. His first recordings as a leader (after defecting in the early '80s) continued to straddle American and Cuban styles. An integral part of Dizzy Gillespie's last group, the United Nations Orchestra, Paquito took over leadership after Dizzy's death in '93, carrying on this Afro-Cuban jazz tradition with vitality and invention.

Listen to Paquito D'Rivera at Finetune.

• (1998)  Hay Solucion
• (1987)  Manhattan Burn
• (1984)  The Best Of Paquito D'Rivera

• Afro Blue
• Cancion de los Ninos
• C?mo Fue
• Mirando Caer la Lluvia
• Song To My Son

• Tito Puente
• Eddie Palmieri
• Arturo Sandoval
• Celia Cruz
• Irakere
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Los Van Van
• Oscar D'Leon
• Ruben Blades
• Cachao
• Gilberto Santa Rosa
• Marc Anthony
• Willie Rosario
• Poncho Sanchez
• Cheo Feliciano
• Eddie Santiago
• Frankie Ruiz
• Jerry Rivera
• Hector Lavoe
• Rey Ruiz

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