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Chucho Valdes And The Birth Of Irakere
by Chris May
Rumor Records' Jazz Cuba series cherry picks from 300 recordings made primarily for local consumption from the mid 1950s through the late 1980s at the Panart and Areito studios in Havana, Cuba. Some may briefly have surfaced in the US via the Cuban exile community, but none have previously been released in the UK or mainland ...
Juan Pablo Torres: Together Again
Label: Pimienta Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: When Day Breaks; Slide Force; Salt and Pepper; Ache; Moonlight Serenade;
Torres and Turre; Pennsylvania 6-5000; Yunfa; All Rhythm Ahead; Blowing Up
New Conceptions
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: La Comparsa, You Don't Know What Love Is, Los Guiros, Nanu, Solar, Sin Clave Pero Con Swing,
Homenaje A Ellington
Chucho Vald?s: New Conceptions
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Latin jazz’s premiere quartet issues yet another skillful interpretation of Ellingtoniana, straight-ahead jazz and blues tenets – as well as Afro-Cuban music – in a compact, exhilarating release. Jesïs “Chucho” Valdïs is at what might be the zenith of his career, as his chops ably attest. New Conceptions features the usual muscularity, intensity and intellectual reach ...
Chucho Vald?s: New Conceptions
by Jim Santella
His quartet and guests give Chucho Valdïs an eclectic atmosphere through which he parades his enthusiasm for American jazz and traditional Cuban music. His heavy piano tirades provide the kind of strength that is needed when one pumps up the volume with Latin percussionists in abundance right and left. Soloists from Irakere share the spotlight this ...
Chucho Valdes: New Conceptions
by Norman Weinstein
The album title is misleading. It is more than about time for the immensely talented Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes to come up with a wholly new musical concept for an album, particularly since he has been repeating the “Tyner-meets-Tatum in Havana" mode for many years. What sounds freshest here are polyrhythmic workouts with drummers Yaroldy Abreau ...
Chucho Valdes: New Conceptions
by Dan McClenaghan
Half in jest, perhaps, Chucho Valdes calls the music he's developing “Cubanglish," a synthesis of Afro-Cuban and American jazz sounds that is unparalleled. On New Conceptions, the sixty year old pianist works with his quartet plus some well-chosen guest artists, in a break from his big band, Irakere; and what you get here is a purer ...
Chucho Vald: Fant
by Jim Santella
A solo piano album can work wonders for your soul. The music drives deeply with personal reflections that we’ve been learning, little by little, since childhood. Thanks to composers such as Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Ernesto Lécuona, we’ve shared much over the years. Chucho Valdés pays homage to each of them and adds his originals. Sparkling ...
Solo-Live in New York
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. A Mi Madre (Valdes) - 7:33 2. Munequita Linda (Grieber) - 4:38 3. Rumba Guajira (Valdes) - 6:22 4. Besame Mucho (Velasquez) - 7:02 5. El Manicero (Simon) - 4:56 6. Somewhere over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) - 5:07 7. Son (Farina) - 4:21 8. Novia Mia (Mendez) - 4:01 9. Delirio (Portillo) - 3:25 10. Tres Lindas Cubanas (Romeu) - 6:19 11. La Negra Tomasa (Rodriguez) - 6:27
