My sax life: a memoir

Paquito D'Rivera; foreword by Ilan Stavans; translated by Luis Tamargo

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Table of Contents:: Foreword / Ilan Stavans
From one shipwrecked sailor to another / Sergio Garcia-Marruz
The book
Introduction and Scherzo
Music and musicians
1959
Jazz
The army
The Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna
Irakere
Fasten your seat belts!
Varadero-Mariel
Madrid-New York
The call of the jungle
The queen and her knight
Cuba on the banks of the Hudson
Coda
Final Chord.
Author/Creator:: D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948-
Contributors:: Stavans, Ilan
Languages:: English
Spanish
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Translated from (original): Spanish
Main Work:: Mi vida saxual [by D'Rivera, P.] (English)
Related Series:: Latino voices
Subjects:: D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948-
Saxophonists — Biography
Jazz musicians — Biography
Saxophonists
Jazz musicians
Genres:: Biographies
General Notes:: Includes index.
Physical Description:: xxv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Call Numbers:: ML419.D75 A3 2005
ISBNs:: 0810122189 (cloth, alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2005015234
OCLC Numbers:: 60516739