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I wrote Bolero Para Paquito for my dear friend, Paquito D’Rivera. We first met on a gig in Germany, when he was 7 and I was 3 1/2. Even then, it was obvious that Paquito was one serious musician. At that time of course, his musical vocabulary was rather limited. But I’ve never heard anyone […]
Why I Play Brazilian Music
Brazilian music is particularly influential, and has been since I first heard it as a teenager. To immerse himself in the music, I moved to Brazil in 1982 at the invitation of Maurício Einhorn, the great Brazilian harmonica player and composer of several classics of bossa nova. I took an apartment in Rio and soon […]
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