◇ image via WikipediaPaquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Chucho Valdés, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. Those roots explain a lot about how Paquito D'Rivera arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Michel Camilo, Gato Barbieri, Joshua Redman, Nguyên Lê and Jack DeJohnette, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bebo Valdés, Irakere, Soledad Bravo, Gloria Estefan and Dizzy Gillespie, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Paquito D'Rivera, reaching back through Chucho Valdés and forward to Bebo Valdés. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Paquito D'Rivera connections
Paquito D'Rivera grew out of Chucho Valdés, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, shares an orbit with Michel Camilo, Gato Barbieri, Joshua Redman and Nguyên Lê, went on to shape Bebo Valdés, Irakere, Soledad Bravo and Gloria Estefan. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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