01.La Comparsa02.Cancao de Noite
03.Danzas Cubanas: A Los Tres Golpes / Invitacion
04.Noche Cubana
05.Contigo en la Distancia
06.Cancion Simple
07.Como un Milagro
08.Impressions From Tien-an-Men Square
09.No Puedo Ser Feliz
10.Como Fue
11.Ciego Reto
12.Segura Ele
13.Untitled.
Jose Madera - Percussion
Chico O'Farrill - Arranger
Claudio Roditi - Trumpet, Soloist
Elliott Rosoff - Violin
Marti Sweet - Violin
Mark Walker - Drums
Johannes Wohlleben - Engineer, Mixing
Gotz A. Worner - Producer, Mixing
Pablo Zinger - Piano, Arranger
William Ellison - Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
Johnny Rodriguez - Percussion
Ik-Hwan Bae - Violin
Bruce Buchanan - Assistant Engineer
Sergio Cruz - Music Preparation
Joel Deroyin - Violin
La Habana - Violin
Joe Rogers - Engineer
Giovanni Hidalgo - Percussion
Danilo Perez - Piano
Al Brown - Violin, Viola
Sanford Allen - Violin
Bob Chausow - Violin
Zach Danziger - Drums
Joel Derouin - Violin
Brenda Feliciano - Associate Producer
David Finck - Bass, Double Bass, Contrabass
Barry Finclair - Violin
Daniel Freiberg - Piano
Juliet Haffner - Violin, Viola
Regis Iandiorio - Violin
Warren Lash - Cello
Romero Lubambo - Guitar
Richard Locker - Cello
Paquito d'Rivera - Clarinet, Flute, Arranger, Conductor, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Main Performer, Mixing
Fareed Haque - Guitar
Carlos Franzetti - Piano, Arranger, Keyboards.
La Habana: Rio Conexion is saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera's attempt to bring the gospel of historical bolero to American listeners. These 12 cuts are steeped in the grand Cuban tradition and reinsert its cultural and historical center into a music that has been watered down to the point of being nondescript. But, of course, this is also a jazz recording, and D'Rivera is a jazz musician. The rhythmic and harmonic extrapolations are minimal, however, and focus on the integral form of the music whether it be the album's opening danza, Ernesto Lecuona's "La Comparsa," or the chorinho that closes the proceedings, Pixinguinha's "Segura Ele." In between are wonderfully romantic boleros, ballads of almost unbearable longing. D'Rivera surrounds himself with brilliant players, such as Danílo Perez, Fareed Haque, Pablo Zinger, Johnny Rodriguez, Claudio Roditi, and Jose Madera, to name a few. He also employs a full string section on many tunes. These range from sextets with strings to simple trio pieces, all of them having in common the form of the bolero as it migrated from Havana to Rio and interacted with samba. D'Rivera performs tunes by everyone from Ivan Lins to the great Cuban composers Ignacio Cervantes and Portillo de la Luz. This is an unabashedly romantic recording, which nonetheless possesses serious chops and killer arrangements by the late Chico O'Farrill, Pablo Zinger, and Carlos Franzetti. Highly recommended.
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