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Article: Interview

Paquito D'Rivera: Jazz at the Heart

by R.J. DeLuke
January 25, 2011

There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain--the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else ...

Article: Interview

Oltre Irakere: Intervista con Chucho Valdés

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 24, 2011

[Per l'intervista a Valdes condotta da Joan A. Cararach clicca qui] Ospite del recente Barcelona Jazz Festival con i suoi Afro-Cuban Messengers, Chucho Valdés ci ha concesso gentilmente quest'intervista dove presenta i concetti musicali della nuova formazione e ricorda alcuni momenti chiave della sua carriera. All About Jazz: Ci presenta questo nuovo gruppo? Chucho Valdés: Il ...

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Article: Year in Review

2010: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 8, 2011

The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...

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Chucho's Steps

By Chucho Valdes

Label: Four Quarters Entertainment
Released: 2010
Track listing: Las dos caras; Danzón; Zawinul's Mambo; Begin To Be Good; New Orleans; Yansá; Julián; Chucho's Steps.

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Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Releases of 2010

by Chris May
December 24, 2010

Here are my favorite dozen new releases of 2010. It was an outstanding year on many fronts. There was ravishing lyricism from saxophonists Nat Birchall and Stan Sulzmann and beyond-touristic flamenco and Indian infusions from bassist Dave Holland and singer Amit Chaudhuri, the politically charged complete works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the delicious ...

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Article: Live Review

Omar Sosa en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona

by Enrique Turpin
December 2, 2010

Omar Sosa con la NDR Big Band y Jaques Molerenbaum42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaPalau de la Música Catalana30 de noviembre, 2010Cuando un pianista se presenta frente a su público con una big band, tres percusionistas y un arreglista de lujo, ya se puede uno imaginar el lugar del ...

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Article: Live Review

Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charles Lloyd and Chucho Valdes at the Barcelona Jazz Festival

by Joao Moreira dos Santos
November 29, 2010

Translated from Portuguese. Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio42 Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz FestivalLuz de GasNovember 14, 2010 Every year, from October to December, the city of Barcelona, in the north of Spain, becomes a true European jazz center. Musicians and journalists from all over the world converge ...

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Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz Festival, Days 4-6: November 11-13, 2010

by John Kelman
November 15, 2010

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyNovember 8-13, 2010 Every city has a story, but some have more than others. Heidelberg, Germany, has a history as rich and varied as might be expected from a place that dates back to the middle of the first century AD, when the ...

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News: Interview

Lorraine Gordon on Chucho Valdes

November 11, 2010

We asked Lorraine Gordon, owner of New York's legendary Village Vanguard, who has presented Chucho Valdés on many occasions, to recommend his highly anticipated concert in Barcelona (with the Afro-Cuban Messengers) on November 17th at the historic Palau de la Música. Here is her answer. On November 1st, in New York City, the great Chucho Valdés ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Chucho Valdes and the Afro-Cuban Messengers at Lincoln Center

October 26, 2010

Chucho Valdés began his late set on Friday night at the Allen Room with a sweeping solo piano introduction to the up-tempo Cuban jazz hybrid “Anabis," such a controlled detonation of music that it kicked through your defenses. That led into a fast tangle with Yaroldy Abreu Robles, the conga player of Mr. Valdés's quartet, the ...