Artist: Chucho Valdes
Album: Live
Genre: Latin Jazz, Salsa
Label: RMM Records
Released: 1998
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
01 Tumbao
02 Danzón Para Sylvia
03 Blues a Benny Moré
04 Blues a Puerto Rico
05 Mango Mangue
06 Tunes a Coy
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Personnel:
Bass – Joe Santiago
Drums – Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez
Flute – Joaquin Oliveros
Percussion – Anthony Carillo
Piano – Chucho Valdés, Hilton Ruiz
Saxophone – Manuel Valera, Mauricio Smith
Timbales – Nicky Marrero
Trombone – Papo Vázquez
Trumpet – Jim Seeley
Vocals – Francisco Fellové
Vocals, Flugelhorn – Roberto Carcassés
Cuban music legend, Jesus “Chucho” Valdes is fiery hot and still impacting the jazz world with his diverse musical elements. Riding the new wave in Latin jazz fostered by the pianist’s critically acclaimed Bele Bele en la Habana on Blue Note in 1998, Valdes reserved enough energy to excite his fans with an exquisite blend of technique and soul on Live. The CD, an infectious, collection of cubop grooves and rhythms, further develops the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz collective Chucho has been pulsating for the past 25 years as musical director of Irakere, the award-winning band he co-founded to play both music styles. “Tumbao,” and “Blues A Puerto Rico,” feature a variety of moods, melodies, synchopation and the signature solos of Chucho’s formidable piano. Along with the extra fire of his rhythm section, Live broadens Valdes’ Afro-Cuban perspective and the influences brimming in Carribean and Latin American life.
Review by Paula Edelstein