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Chucho Valdés is considered one of the best pianists in the world, returns to the Festival de Jazz de San Javier to present his new album "Chucho's Steps", a product of the penultimate creative project of this brilliant and restless Cuban musician with his new band The Afro Cuban Messengers have been proposed to give a further twist to the musical fusion.
Chucho Valdés explained that his new album is a fusion of Cuban music, African and jazz, with a different concept that people will notice immediately. "
The Cuban pianist and composer who claims to be a new phase of renovation work done so far, no doubt to ensure that "Chucho's Steps" is "the best instrumental album I've done in my life."
Surrounded by an excellent band of musicians, Chucho Valdes, founder of the legendary Irakere, with whom they already revolutionized Latin music in the 70's, will sound in Jazz San Javier, songs like "Danzon" which combine cha and R & B, and "New Orleans "with linking the banks of the Mississippi to the beaches of Cuba, while paying homage to Marsalis, or that the title track" Chucho's Steps ", to which a nod to the great John Coltrane that recorded in 1980 "Giants Steps."
The jazzy piano sound Chucho accompanied by bass, drums, tenor sax, trumpet and percussion, in a set that features the voices of Durruthy Dreiser, and Mayra Caridad Valdes, Chucho Valdés sister, one of the leading representatives of the latin jazz revolution and an essential name of Cuban musical history.
Son of the Bebo Valdes, Chucho began five years studying the piano.
Fifteen years and formed his first jazz trio.
Unstoppable since then, passed through the band "Sabor de Cuba" directed by his father, but his creative capacity led him to form new groups in which to experiment and seek new avenues of music, as with Irakere, the training that revolutionized Latin music with a mix of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music.
A treasured his 68 years, seven Grammy Awards, 87 albums and 33 collaborations with other artists.
Tireless, Chucho Valdes says she has many ideas and projects to be developed.
At the Festival de Jazz de San Javier, which already gave a splendid concert in the edition of 2006 closely follows the career of this great teacher that morning as usual offer a lecture on new ways of latin jazz, as well to provide the public the pleasure of hearing the piano and enjoy unforgettable live.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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