Paquito D'Rivera (clarinet) plays together with the WDR BIG BAND "Libertango" (K: Astor Piazzolla; A: Pedro Giraudo). This track features Andy Haderer on trumpet, Marcelo Nisinman on bandeon, Paquito D'Rivera on saxophone, and Hilario Durán on piano. The WDR Big Band will be conducted by Hilarion Duran. Other musical guests include Pernell Saturnino, percussion and Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez on drums. Recorded live at WDR Studio 4 / Cologne (February 2015).
Already as a child Paquito D'Rivera (clarinet) played in the great concert halls of his native Cuba. The musician has remained faithful to the stage and his audience to this day, only that the stages have long since become larger and, moreover, international. The clarinettist, saxophonist and composer has enjoyed a long and intimate friendship with the WDR Big Band. Several top-class CD productions "Benny Goodman Revisited" and "Big Band Time" bear witness to this fruitful collaboration. It was therefore D'Rivera's wish to celebrate his sixtieth stage anniversary with the WDR Big Band. The focus is on many of his own compositions, arranged especially for the WDR BIG BAND by D'Rivera's compatriot Hilario Duran (direction, arrangement and piano).
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