His set included a new song, which turned out to be the night's highlight.
His set included songs associated with fado's two most indelible singers, Ms. Rodrigues and Alfredo Marceneiro.
His set included his latest single, "Monsoon," a ballad from "Escapology" about the perils of celebrity life.
His set included pieces in more and less traditional Arabic styles: stately, almost spartan melodies that led to improvisations full of dignified passion.
He was named for the sitting president, Thomas Jefferson, and educated at Transylvania University in Mary Todd's hometown, Lexington, then at West Point, class of 1828, where his "set" included his future generals Albert Sidney Johnston, Joe Johnston and Robert E. Lee.
He's also a comics artist, and his set included two short films — essentially slide shows of his elaborate drawings — that were finely reasoned histories, in rhyme, of the Soviet Union and the French Revolution, affirming populism through primitivism.
His set included rappers (Lord Nez and Akim Kuzma-Bartz, Mr. Bartz's son), two-saxophone improvisations (with Rene McLean) and long drafts of his improvising over a straight-ahead jazz rhythm section, a kind of demonstration of how to connect the lessons of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.
His set included "Smoke Rings in the Dark," a breakup song that begins with a man telling a woman she needn't bother explaining, "Well, I won't make you tell me/What I've come to understand".
His set included Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango," in which the bandoneón held sway, and a personalized Ernesto Lecuona theme called "Lecuonerias," in which Mr. D'Rivera played clarinet with a classical intonation and rhythm that was breathtaking.
