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Bringing the Cuban jazz revolution to Irish shores
... jazz and Russian classical pedagogy that was available in Havana during the '80s and '90s. Cuban piano masters Chucho Valdes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba were both mentors to the young Villafranca, but his mature sound is in fact more informed by very ...
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Reflections Upon an Influential Education: 10 Albums from Irakere Alumni
... them, the group has held a long list of Cuba's finest musicians. The group's core musicians - artists like Chucho Valdes and Carlos Del Puerto - became the backbone of the Havana jazz scene. The younger musicians that passed through Irakere built ...
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Bebo Valdes and Javier Colina: Live At The Village Vanguard
Calle 54 Records The comparison between pianists Bebo Valdes and his son Chucho Valdes could be likened to the choice of the Beatles to the Rolling Stones .
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Cuba artists ask U.S. to ease sanctions after Ike & Gustav
... addressed to the world's artists and intellectuals was signed by musicians Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes and Chucho Valdes, writers Miguel Barnet and Roberto Fernandez Retamar, dancer Alicia Alonso and painter Roberto Fabelo, among others. Cuba ...
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CD: World music review: Mariza, Terra
The fifth studio album by Portugal's finest sees her, along with musos such as Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes, and guitarists Dominic Miller and Javier Limon, mix mournful fados with flamenco, Cuban jazz and ...
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Cuban Band-Leader/Flutist 'Maraca' Kicks Off 20-City U.S. Tour
... by current trends. The album chronicles Maraca's journey from child-prodigy flutist with famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes' band, Irakere to his current reign as Cuba's most popular musical export. "In essence, " says Maraca. "the songs have to do ...
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Grammy-Nominated Cuban Band-Leader/Flutist 'Maraca' Kicks...
... by current trends. The album chronicles Maraca's journey from child-prodigy flutist with famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes' band, Irakere to his current reign as Cuba's most popular musical export. 'In essence,' says Maraca. 'the songs have to do ...
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EDUCATION: Kathy Brown in Training with Jazz Masters
... her awareness in jazz by listening to Bob James, Joe Sample, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock's earlier works, Chucho Valdes, Monty Alexander, Kenny Barron, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Michel Camilo to name a few of her influences. Still, Brown, who ...
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Kathy Brown in training with jazz masters
... her awareness in jazz by listening to Bob James, Joe Sample, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock's earlier works, Chucho Valdes, Monty Alexander, Kenny Barron, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Michel Camilo to name a few of her influences. Still, Brown, who ...
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Double Header: Arturo Sandoval And Cyrus Chestnut
JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater , September 4, 2008 - Born in 1949 in Cuba, Arturo Sandoval - with Chucho Valdes and Paquito D'Rivera - belonged to the legendary band Irakere in the '70s. The band featured ...
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Double Header: Arturo Sandoval And Cyrus Chestnut
JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater , September 4, 2008 - Born in 1949 in Cuba, Arturo Sandoval - with Chucho Valdes and Paquito D'Rivera - belonged to the legendary band Irakere in the '70s. This band featured ...
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Pellejo Seco: Ivan Camblor's Cuban roots music
... profile considerably. Collaborating with Cuban pianist Chuchito Valdes, who is the son of Irakere founder Chucho Valdes and grandson of piano legend Bebo Valdes, Camblor has developed a new body of tunes that hark back to the raw, pulsing energy of ...
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DVD/VIDEO: Looking at the Bigger Picture: Irakere Alumni on Video
... the bands performances, I generally consider the musicianship of the classic members - artists such as Chucho Valdes, Paquito DRivera, Arturo Sandoval, Carlos Del Puerto, Enrique Pla, and Carlos Emilio Morales. Looking at the greater history of ...
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Cuba to Host Jazz Festival in Varadero
... Valdes, Rolando Luna and Alejandro Vargas will also be attending the event, along with groups like Irakere, Chucho Valdes y su cuarteto, Jose Luis Cortes (El Tosco) and NG La Banda, Lazaro Valdes with Bamboleo, Cesar Lopez and Havana Ensamble, and ...
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... think of as jazz," Stone said. Jesus "Chuchito" Valdes learned to play piano at the knee of his famed father, Chucho Valdes, and grandfather, Bebo Valdes, and he continues the legacy of great Cuban piano players. Chuchito is recognized as a master ...
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Jazz great Paquito D'Rivera kicks off Litchfield Jazz Fest with a hot sax and a new song
... to co-found the ensemble Irakere, which blended jazz, rock, classical and Cuban sounds. With Irakere members Chucho Valdes and Arturo Sandoval, he toured the world and won a Grammy. On tour in 1980, D'Rivera defected, leaving behind a Cuban wife, a ...
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Spanish Soprano Montserrat Performing in Miami Beach Wednesday
... Cuba and San Paolo, Brazil, Montserrat's silky voice is accompanied by the performances of Cuban artists Chucho Valdes and Pablo Milanes, among others. Although she enjoyed singing as a child, and took an array of voice lessons, the urge to sing ...
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Spanish Soprano Montserrat Performing in Miami Beach Wednesday
... Cuba and San Paolo, Brazil, Montserrat's silky voice is accompanied by the performances of Cuban artists Chucho Valdes and Pablo Milanes, among others. Although she enjoyed singing as a child, and took an array of voice lessons, the urge to sing ...
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Byblos Festival stays the course in 2008
... from Patti Smith and her band, Lumi, Sebastian Tellier, Mouse on Mars, Vaya Con Dios, Barbatuques, Chucho Valdes, Michel Legrand and Oussama Rahbani. The yearly event was first launched in 1998, attaining a measure of local status under the ...
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CD/Download Release: Completing the Picture: Early Paquito D'Rivera Re-Issues
... find recordings. The expected collaborations arise often on these CDs - most notably DRiveras association with Chucho Valdes and Irakere - but the albums also contain some unlikely musical partners, such as a Finnish jazz combo and the Egrem Studios ...
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