Paquito D’Rivera April 2, 2013 Paul Hall
This concert ended Juilliard Jazz’s season of excellent artist-in-residence events (see Wycliffe Gordon February 4, 2013 and George Coleman October 16, 2012). Like the other NEA Jazz Masters that I’ve seen, D’Rivera shows total mastery, ease, and infectious joy. In this context he is mentoring our next crop of players; he performed with two separate ensembles.