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Dave Valentin; Jammin on the Hudson
For Our final Concert of this Season, We Present; one of the only remaining Latin Kings of Jazz on the scene today, who came up in that tradition with Tito Puente, and Mario Rivera & the Salsa Refugees. He has taken Latin Jazz to a new level, following in the paths of both Jazz and Latin ...
Come Fly With Me
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Come Fly With Me; Twinkle Toes; Enciendido; Mind Games; If You Could See Me Now; Easy
Street; Tu Panuelo; House of the Sun; Song For My Brothers.
Dave Valentin: Come Fly With Me
by Michael P. Gladstone
Flutist Dave Valentin is a New Yorker who has capitalized upon a plethora of easy-to-take Latin-lite albums over the years, largely for the GRP label. The emphasis that Valentin lent those GRP albums was fusion-ish, with the perfectly syncopated sounds of smooth Latin jazz and R&B. Of the seventeen albums Valentin has recorded since 1980, only ...
Jazz Flute: World on a String and Flutevibes
by Marcia Hillman
Dave Valentin World on a String HighNote 2005 Gerald Beckett Flutevibes Summit 2006 The tale of two pied pipers is told on two new CDs: one by Dave Valentin and ...
Dave Valentin: Sunshower
by Douglas Payne
Flautist Dave Valentin is fast becoming as ubiquitous a player as his former teacher, Hubert Laws, used to be. Indeed, Valentin has become the flautist of choice on a great quantity of recent Latin jazz recordings by such varied artists as McCoy Tyner, Tito Puente, Elaine Elias and Dave Samuels. Not as distinctive as Laws (nor ...
Dave Valentin: Sunshower
by Jim Santella
New York flutist Dave Valentin gigged as a teenager on congas before studying with Hubert Laws and taking his flute talents seriously. Today he’s musical director for Tito Puente and firmly rooted in the Latin jazz tradition. Valentin’s latest album crosses a variety of styles, from the modern mainstream spark of “Space Cadet" to the smooth ...
