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Артист: Chucho Valdés Альбом: Solo - Live In New York , 2001 Жанр: Latin Jazz-Piano Solo Формат файла: EAC+APE CD Image(CUE Sheet) Ссылка: CD 15 clicks Нахождение: eDonkey

Chucho Valdés - Solo - Live In New York


01. A Mi Madre [0:07:33.65]
02. Muñequita Linda [0:04:38.65]
03. Rumba Guajira [0:06:22.65]
04. Bésame Mucho [0:07:02.42]
05. El Manicero [0:04:56.43]
06. Somewhere Over the Rainbow [0:05:07.62]
07. Son [0:04:21.73]
08. Novia Mía [0:04:01.70]
09. Delirio [0:03:25.37]
10. Tres Lindas Cubanas [0:06:19.53]
11. La Negra Tomasa [0:06:27.10]

Label:Blue Note Records

Genre:Latin Jazz/Piano Solo

Compression:EAC+APE w/CUE sheet

Covers:Front,back,inlay and cd

Size:248.21 MB

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Jesús "Chucho" Valdés, a reigning jazz presence for a quarter century, began learning piano fundamentals at age three from his father, distinguished pianist and mambo innovator Ramón "Bebo" Valdés. Conservatory trained in Cuba as a pre-teen, Chucho Valdés earned praise for his playing from Nat King Cole, Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughan and other visiting stars.   Thus inspired, Valdés formed his own jazz group in 1957 at age 16. He later apprenticed with Cuban jazz originators Ernesto Lecuona, Armando Romeu, Beny Moré and Elio Revé; gained national popularity during the 1960s; and found international admirers, notably Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan, at the 1970 Polish Jazz Festival.   In 1973 Valdés co-founded Irakere, the seminal ensemble that launched the international careers of saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, with a knockout performance at the 1978 Newport Jazz Festival and a 1979 Grammy award-winning album.   Unlike his confreres, each of whom later defected, Valdés has continued to find musical inspiration at home and has become Cuba's foremost musical emissary. He founded the Havana International Jazz Festival in 1980, an event he still hosts, and maintains a vigorous international touring and recording schedule.   Solo: Live in New York (Blue Note) surveys the staggering talent of this dean of Afro-Caribbean piano. The recording complements an inventive series of obscure solo titles Valdés released between 1988 and 1997: Lucumí (Messidor), Solo Piano (Blue Note), Pianissimo (Musique) and Invitación (EGREM).   Recorded in 1998 at Lincoln Center's "Jazz in the Penthouse" series, Valdés' latest disc captures the spontaneous warmth of live performance and confirms its creator's continuing artistic maturation. Valdés' soaring musical intellect and consummate technique propel Live in New York's subtle melding of Cuban, classical, jazz and blues strains in surprising, ever-instructive and immensely moving ways.   Valdés re-imagines Afro-Cuban piano at every hairpin turn, along the way transforming the standards "El Manisero," "Delirio" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow." Inspired by Art Tatum but never beholden to him, Valdés recapitulates the sweeping majesty of jazz piano history. "A Mi Madre" is particularly notable in this regard. The tune Valdés describes as "Cubanglish" is an evocative weave of contemporary and traditional Afro-Cuban and Afro-American idioms.   Valdés taps the complementary inspiration of McCoy Tyner's playing -- swift precision, muscular dynamics and affirmative tonality -- in the spiritual swing of "Rumba Guajira" and the meditative feel of "Muñequita Linda." Likewise, his nimble, percussive attack and full-throttle keyboard conception render inimitable tribute to Bud Powell. The unerring touch and rippling percussive joy with which Valdés infuses "Tres Lindas Cubanas" and "La Negra Tomasa" delightfully celebrate the live-wire spirit of Cuban piano, now and to come.

Great album of a great pianist !

Many thanks, JBrown

See you !

There is more from where this come.I am already doing the rip of Canciones Inéditas(Inedit Songs), a recent cd(2002 i believe) released by EGREM,who won the Latin Grammy.Coming soon to a eMule near you.