Paquito D'Rivera

A one-of-a-kind album presenting the great Cuban saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera in a quintet format during a session taped in Finland in 1976. In this, which was his second album as a leader, he is backed by Esko Linnavalli on piano, Esko Rosnell on drums, Oscar Valdés on percussion, and the great Danish bassists Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. It includes poignant versions of “Hasta Siempre” (a song composed in homage to Ché Guevara) and the standards “I Want to Talk About You” and “Stella by Starlight”. A duet by D’Rivera with Chucho Valdés at the piano fromt he same period has been added as a bonus.