Fernando Trueba's 'playlist': music without borders by Paquito D'Rivera

Despite having listened to him with Irakere, Paquito D'Rivera “was born” to me when my friend Nat Chediak gave me the first American album by Paquito:  Blowin ' , which has been at the origin of many important things in my life.

Paquito increasingly divides his work between classical music, traditional music and jazz, probably because for him music is only music and knows no borders or even political boundaries.

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• Instrumental Boy
• The jazz that the Beatles have inspired

All those Paquitos, which are actually only one, I like, but I will always have a soft spot for the most jazzy Paquito, perhaps because the things we hear, see or read at a certain age or at a certain point in our lives mark us in a special way. .

So today's list is dedicated to someone who has the virtuosity of Charlie Parker and the delicacy of Johnny Hodges, the Latinity of Gato Barbieri and the flavor of Chombo, the sense of the show by Dizzy Gillespie and the sense of space by Paul Desmond. ..

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