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Omara Portuondo & Chucho Valdes: Omara & Chucho
by Chris May
Omara Portuondo and Chucho ValdésOmara & ChuchoWorld Village2011 After 50 years of carrying a torch for Bueno Vista Social Club singer Omara Portuondo, pianist Chucho Valdés has finally succeeded in getting her into bed. The rear sleeve photo on Omara & Chucho shows the pair side by ...
2010: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...
Roberto Fonseca: A Life in the Spirit
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Recognition for the considerable talent of Cuban pianist, Roberto Fonseca has spread far and wide, and if there was another dimension to enter, it would be the one that qualifies an artist to greatness. However, Fonseca fights shy of any attention that distracts from his music. A deeply spiritual person, who just happens to express himself ...
Legendary Cuban Singer and Latin Grammy Nominee Omara Portuondo Receives Visa to Promote Concerts in USA
Cultural Breakthrough Achieved Six Year Restriction On Musical Performances Lifted San Francisco Jazz Festival October 20 and UCLA October 23 Omara Portuondo, the world renowned vocalist who began her career in the music scene of her native Cuba in the 1940s, has been granted a travel visa to perform in the United States for two very ...
Omara Portuondo: Gracias
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi ha avuto modo di seguirla in una recente esibizione live ha avuto anche modo di apprezzare la sua intatta voglia di vivere il palcoscenico. A circa 80 anni, Omara Portuondo è piena di vita. Quando non ce la fa si siede, ma subito dopo è pronta a cantare con gioia e passione il successivo brano ...
Cuban Diva Looks Back on 60 Years
From her days as a pioneer of Cuban jazz music in the 1940s to her legendary appearances with the Buena Vista Social Club in the late 1990s and her following artistic revival, singer Omara Portuondo has good reason to celebrate. And this is what the 77-year-old Cuban diva has done with her new album, Gracias, which ...
Omara Portuondo - Lagrimas Negras: Canciones Y Boleros CD - Avalable 03/18/08
This double CD is the result of an interpretive creation full of feeling, intimacy, and naturalness. Description: This double CD, “Lgrimas Negras (Black Tears), Canciones y Boleros", is the result of an interpretive creation full of feeling, intimacy, and naturalness. Omara returned to the Latin American popular classics, with a difficult to imagine ensemble consisting of ...
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