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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

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Chucho Vald?s: New Conceptions

Read "New Conceptions" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
December 15, 2003

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 ...

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Chucho Vald?s: New Conceptions

Read "New Conceptions" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
December 7, 2003

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 ...

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Chucho Valdes: New Conceptions

Read "New Conceptions" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein
November 2, 2003

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 ...

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Chucho Valdes: New Conceptions

Read "New Conceptions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 25, 2003

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 ...