Chucho Valdés Announces “Jazz Batá 2”– A New Project With Old Roots
Chucho Valdés Revisits Seminal 1972 Recording Jazz Batá with a Sequel 46 Years Later Jazz Batá 2 – Available November 16 on Mack Avenue Records Album features Regina Carter, Yelsy Heredia, Dreiser...
View ArticleChucho Valdés Releases “Border-Free”
Following the success of Chucho’s Steps and a series of world tours, Cuba’s foremost pianist has developed a brand new repertoire, the culmination of his ceaseless explorations within the world of...
View ArticleChucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers: Border-Free
The connotation of the music of Chucho Valdés being Border-Free, from soul to finger-tips, is that idiom and metaphor melt—one into the other—and that lines are blurred; so much so that the imagery and...
View ArticleChucho Valdés in Puerto Rico
Chucho Valdés & The Afro-Cuban Jazz Messengers in Puerto Rico: Concert Report by Wilbert Sostre – June 22, 2013 It was worth the ten years waiting to be in the presence once again of one of the...
View ArticleBorder-Free: Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers
* Previously reviewed and selected as Album of the Week on May 21, 2012. – The connotation of the music of Chucho Valdés being Border-Free, from soul to finger-tips, is that idiom and metaphor melt—one...
View ArticleSon de Brooklyn: Obama Manda a su Nganga
The timing of this record could not have been better, coming at a time when US President Barak Obama lifted the decades-long embargo of Cuba bringing that country into the international league of...
View ArticleChucho Valdés: Tribute to Irakere
In 2010 the BBC Library released tapes of a 1995 Irakere concert in London. Imprinted on record by the Beeb three years after the release of the tapes, the disc proved to be a phenomenally popular...
View ArticleChucho Valdés: Jazz Batá 2
When Old Man Bebo first disappeared from music in Europe and before he was re-discovered again by Paquito D’Rivera, his son Chucho Valdés began to emerge from the long and legendary shadow of his...
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