D'Rivera Tico Tico?

[singlereed]

Anyone know if sheet music is available for Paquito D'Rivera's 'Tico Tico' and where I could get it? Usual sources have drawn a blank. It's a clarinet piece but I thought I'd stick the post in here for more chance of it being seen :P

[tinpalaceroach]

write to paquito on his website,write to chesky records who recorded it, look also for the original published version and not just paquito's. tico tico is an 1930's brazilian song once made famous by carmen miranda with the fruit salad hat.

[singlereed]

Actually, that helped, Dolphyo - I had assumed that the piece was by D'Rivera, actually the composer was called Abreu. Anyway, I found it in a book calles 'Play Latin' (ed Alan Gout, pub Faber) which we had anyway. Its fine for my purpose.

[amg]

Yup, for about 30 years Tico Tico (by Zequinha de Abreu, 1880-1935, from Sao Paulo, Brazil) was one of the standard latin hits that everyone knew. Not so well known now.

But when Charlie Parker recorded his LP South of the Border in 1948 he included it ... so if you want to go tearing into some cool bebop after whizzing through Abreu's themes, I think I have a transcription of Bird's solo somewhere.