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Chucho's Steps

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

Read "Chris May's Best Releases of 2010" reviewed by Chris May


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

Read "Omar Sosa en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona" reviewed by Enrique Turpin


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

Read "Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charles Lloyd and Chucho Valdes at the Barcelona Jazz Festival" reviewed by Joao Moreira dos Santos


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

Read "Enjoy Jazz Festival, Days 4-6: November 11-13, 2010" reviewed by John Kelman


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

Lorraine Gordon on Chucho Valdes

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

Chucho Valdes and the Afro-Cuban Messengers at Lincoln Center

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Middelheim 2010

Read "Jazz Middelheim 2010" reviewed by Martin Longley


Jazz MiddelheimPark Den BrandtAntwerpen, BelgiumAugust 12-15, 2010 The Jazz Middelheim festival is a weekender that hasn't relinquished its fondness for adventure over the last four decades. Nuzzling up against stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...

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Yansa

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Label: Four Quarters Entertainment
Released: 2010
Duration: 7:50

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Article: Album Review

Chucho Valdes & the Afro-Cuban Messengers: Chucho's Steps

Read "Chucho's Steps" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


The odyssey of pianist Chucho Valdés has been well documented from his early days in Cuba playing in his father Bebo's Sabor de Cuba Orchestra to the founding of Irakere and on to new pastures as he infused fresh blood into Latin music and jazz. Valdez has never been fettered; his ideas are constantly evolving, finding ...


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