Funk Tango
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Funk Tango is an album by the Paquito D'Rivera
Quintet?, released through Sunny Side Records in 2007. In 2008, the album won the group the Grammy Award
for Best Latin Jazz Album
.
Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
Quintet?, released through Sunny Side Records in 2007. In 2008, the album won the group the Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Latin Jazz Album
Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the Latin jazz music genre...
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Track listing
- "Pere" (Simon) – 6:35
- "What About That!" (Walker) – 6:56
- "Revirado" (Piazzolla) – 5:36
- "Contradanza" (D'Rivera) – 3:05
- "Milonga 10" (Otero) – 5:17
- "Final Waltz" (Urcola) – 5:27
- "Funk Tango" (Yavnai) – 7:09
- "Mariela's Dream" (Mallet, Stagnaro) – 6:48
- "La Yumba-Caravan" (Pugliese, Tizol) – 8:01
- "Como un Bolero" (D'Rivera) – 4:49
- "Giant Steps" (Coltrane) – 5:50