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PAQUITO D'RIVERA QUINTET TO PERFORM FOR WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY'S JAZZ ROOM SERIES
The concert will begin at 4 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on the campus in Wayne. Tickets are available in advance or on the day of the performance at $12 standard; $9 for senior citizens, non-William Paterson students and William Paterson faculty, staff and alumni. William Paterson students may attend free of charge. Born in Havana, Cuba, D'Rivera was a child prodigy who began playing the clarinet and the saxophone and performing with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra at a very early age. He founded the "Orquesta Cuban de Musica Moderna" and "Irakere," which featured an explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music never heard before. D'Rivera has toured the world with Triangulo, his ensemble devoted exclusively to chamber music, as well as the Paquito D'Rivera Big Band and the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet. His appearances in classical venues include solo performances with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the London Philharmonic, among others. In addition to his extraordinary performing career, D'Rivera is well-known for his compositions. His music, including a discography of over 24 solo albums, demonstrates his extraordinary range in bebop, classical and Latin/Caribbean music. In 1991, D'Rivera received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Latin music, along with Dizzy Gillespie and Gato Barbieri. In 1997, he earned his second Grammy Award for his record, the highly acclaimed, "Portraits of Cuba." Currently, D'Rivera is artist in residence at New Jersey Performing Arts Center and artistic director of jazz programming for the New Jersey Chamber Music Society. Prior to the concert, there will be a "Latin Jazz Performance Clinic" with Paquito D'Rivera, co-sponsored by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center World Festival III Residency Program. The workshop begins at 1 p.m. in Shea 101. Admission is free to all Jazz Room ticketholders. Launched in the spring of 1978, William Paterson's Jazz Room Series has earned a reputation for presenting concerts by eminent musicians in the jazz world. The series has been awarded numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Citations of Excellence from the Council for its cultural contribution to the state. For additional information, please call William Paterson's
Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371. Shea Center, 300 Pompton
Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito
D'Rivera, the Grammy Award-winner and creator of a multinational
style that moves from bebop to classical, brings his Quintet
to William Paterson University in Wayne on Sunday, February 13
as part of the Winter 2000 Jazz Room Series.