Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is considered the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. In a career spanning more than 60 years, both...
Before devoting himself entirely to a career in music as a pianist and composer, Chucho Valdés studied to become a teacher. His admiration for his uncle Emilio’s vocation,...
Godfather of Cuban jazz, Chucho Valdés, performs music from his newest release, Jazz Batá 2, revisiting his 1972 album of the same name. The complexity of batá...
Sometimes in music you enter through a door and discover that the room you are now in has no walls, no ceiling and no floor. Indeed,...
While you might have to wait until “My Reverie” on Disc Two to experience the full virtuosity of leader and pianist Chucho Valdés, it’s worth the...
2018 was a very prolific year in terms of music being released. It was a year of excellency, in terms of great new music being created....
Pianist Chucho Valdés – six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Latin Grammy Award Winner – has been named 2019 Jazz Master in Residence at Harvard University....
When Old Man Bebo first disappeared from music in Europe and before he was re-discovered again by Paquito D’Rivera, his son Chucho Valdés began to emerge...
Chucho Valdés Revisits Seminal 1972 Recording Jazz Batá with a Sequel 46 Years Later Jazz Batá 2 – Available November 16 on Mack Avenue Records Album...
Of the many – and often chameleonic – ways to describe the music of Dafnis Prieto the word “questing” comes to mind most often and also...
Pianist, composer, arranger Hilario Durán makes a triumphant musical homecoming on his new album Contumbao. Recorded in the historic Egrem Studios in Havana, Cuba with an...
Lázaro Valdés is a pianist of prodigious beginnings and of considerable musical pedigree. Although he played with an array of big bands, including one fronted by...
Chucho Valdés will inaugurate Jazz Plaza International Festival 2018 The award-winning Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés will open the XXXIII edition of the International Jazz Plaza 2018...
15th Annual Panama Jazz Festival Led by Artistic Director Danilo Pérez Uniting internationally acclaimed jazz artists, renowned educators and jazz fans from around the globe, the...
Hilario Durán makes a triumphant musical homecoming with his newest album, “Contumbao.” Internationally recognized as a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader of the highest order,...