Sergei Roxie Rivera

Chesky Records' 2005 release of Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Paquito D’Rivera’s “The Jazz Chamber Trio”.

Sergei Prokofiev is a prominent figure in music history and one of the most talked-about composers of his time. As the protagonist of a new era, he mixed up the international music scene in the first decades of the 20th century. Prokofiev, who had at first violently attacked the musical traditions of Romanticism and created works that "could not be removed from the world" (as H. C. Schonberg formulated it), later became almost a romantic". This development can be traced by listening to the 14 original albums from the years 1954 to 1961 on this documentation. It includes all of his piano-, violin- and cello-concertos, as well as his complete piano sonatas - a genre that the composer studied for over forty years - as well as the five most important symphonies, including his world-famous "Classic" (Fricsay 1954) and the extraordinarily popular Symphony No. 5 under George Szell from 1959.

El tiempo va y viene constantemente en Monzón, la serie. El relato comienza con aquella fatídica madrugada del 14 de febrero de 1988, cuando muere Alicia Muñiz, pero la verdadera historia arranca mucho antes, en la década de 1950, en la juventud del personaje de Monzón.Ese constante movimiento temporal fluye en la conciencia del espectador gracias a un excelente trabajo narrativo en el que la música tiene una parte central. En palabras de Sergei Grosny, el cráneo detrás de esa obra musical, “acompañar el desdoblamiento temporal sin que quede un cocoliche, fue el mayor desafío”.

A dozen micro-songs of less than a minute was the origin.

Diego Rivera is a world-class tenor and soprano saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator. He teaches in and serves as Associate Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University. He is also director of the award-winning ensemble MSU Jazz Octet 1. Rivera possesses a direct, robust tone that recalls the emotive "tough tenor" era of Johnny Griffin and Gene "Jug" Ammons; one can also hear the tonal influences of Ben Webster and the modal approach of John Coltrane in his soprano playing.