Results for "Chucho Valdes"

Article: Live Review

Jazz Middelheim 2010

by Martin Longley
October 18, 2010

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

October 10, 2010

Album: Chucho's Steps
By Chucho Valdes
Label: Four Quarters Entertainment
Released: 2010
Duration: 7:50

Article: Album Review

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

by Jerry D'Souza
September 26, 2010

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 ...

Article: Interview

Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends

by Joan A. Cararach
September 20, 2010

Chucho Valdés arrived at his All About Jazz interview confident: of his music and of Spain's victory in the South African FIFA World Cup. It was July 11th 2010, and for the first time in its history, Spain's national team had reached a World Cup final, in South Africa. A Cuban interested in football? “A lot ...

Article: Interview

Chucho Valdés, música sin fin

by Joan A. Cararach
September 20, 2010

Chucho Valdés acude al encuentro con AllAboutJazz confiado. En su música y en la victoria de España en el Mundial de fútbol de Sudáfrica. Es el 11 de julio del 2010, y por primera vez en su historia la selección española ha llegado a una final del Mundial, en Sudáfrica. ¿Un cubano interesado en el fútbol? ...

Article: Album Review

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

by Chris May
September 20, 2010

The semiology contained on pianist Chucho Valdés' magnificent Chucho's Steps points to the character of the music before the disc has even been taken out of its sleeve. First there's the name of the group and its reference to drummer Art Blakey's ferociously swinging Jazz Messengers. Then there's the title of the opener, “Las dos caras" ...

Article: Album Review

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

by Chris May
September 20, 2010

La semiología contenida en el magnífico Chucho's Steps de Chucho Valdés define el carácter de la música antes de haber reproducido el disco. En primer lugar, la referencia al batería Art Blakey y al swing apasionado y feroz de los Jazz Messengers. Luego, el título de la pieza inicial, Las dos caras, que apunta a las ...

Video

The Making Of "Chucho's Steps"

Featuring the music of Chucho Valdes
Duration: 5:54
September 20, 2010

The much anticipated new album by legendary Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes and his vibrant band, the Afro-Cuban Messengers. In this video, filmed at Abdala Studios in Havana, the maestro introduces his Chucho's Steps and talks about his new compositions and fellow musicians.

News: Interview

Legendary Cuban Pianist Chucho Valdes Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

September 20, 2010

For his first album in seven years, Chuco Valdés returns to the group format, expanding his longstanding quartet to an even more powerful septet. The legendary Cuban pianist and founding member of Irakere has been touring the world in support of Chucho's Steps (World Village, 2010), and will welcome Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Cuban Funk Experience

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
September 6, 2010

UK mixologist John Armstrong has compiled a collection of “Cuban funk" recordings from the coffers of two record labels: Havana's Egrem and Miami's Sound Triangle, between 1973 and 1988. Like Típica '73's Johnny “Dandy" Rodríguez did back in the 1970s, Armstrong is arguing that Cuban music in the US and in Cuba are two branches of ...