06.Esta tarde vi llover/My Foolish Heart (A Manzanero/Rogers-Hart) 5:30
07.A Ernesto (C Valdés) 5:50
08.Amanecer (C Valdés) 3:20
09.Son en Do menor (Carlos Fariñas) 6:45
10.Estás en mi Corazón (Ernesto Lecuona) 4:55.
(Review) Listening to Chucho Valdes enthrall an Argentinean audience at Buenos Aires' iconic Teatro Colon feels a little bit like hearing Art Tatum miraculously transposed to the present day. Like Tatum, genre distinctions don't exist for Valdes -jazz, classical and Afro-Cuban music converse freely in his solo piano playing. But Valdes' flourishes are much more restrained than Tatum's: His playing is crisp and clear-eyed, and his choice of material ranging from Thelonious Monk to the Cuban classic "Son de la Loma" - inspired. A marvelous recording by a living legend for any fan of piano music.
(Bio) Chucho Valdés (born Jesús Dionisio Valdés in Quivicán, Cuba, October 9, 1941) is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists. His father is the famed Cuban pianist and former director of Havana's famous "Tropicana" night club band Bebo Valdés.
Chucho has won four Grammy awards: in 1978 for the album Live at Newport by Irakere; in 1998 for his contribution to the CD Havana by his band Crisol (formed in 1997), with two songs Mr. Bruce and Mambo para Roy written by Chucho; in 2003 for his album Live at the Village Vanguard; and in 2011 for his album Chucho's Steps.
On 16 October 2006, Chucho Valdés was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
In 2008 Sony released an album of Chucho playing with his father Bebo Valdés.
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