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Paquito D'rivera at Lincoln Hall, Portland State University

Courtesy of SoulPatch Music Productions | Posted on October 25, 2017

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Lincoln Hall, Portland State University
1620 SW Park Ave
portland, OR
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Mon, November 27, 2017
7:00 pm

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SoulPatch Music Productions in association with Portland State University Jazz Department is proud to present fourteen GRAMMY award winning NEA Jazz Master saxophonist/clarinetist and composer Paquito D’Rivera on Monday November 27th at 7:00 PM at Portland State University's Lincoln Performance Hall. D’Rivera will join PSU students, faculty, and guests to perform his own compositions and arrangements.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Paquito D’Rivera studied both classical and jazz music at the Havana Conservatory of Music where he met pianist Chucho Valdes. Together they co-founded the innovative musical ensemble Irakere, which also included rising trumpet star Arturo Sandoval. Blending jazz, rock, classical, and Cuban music in a fashion never heard before, Irakere took the world by storm touring internationally to great acclaim and winning their first GRAMMY in 1979....

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