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Chucho Valdés, El Rumbón (The Party)

By Wolfgang club
29 Apr 2009
Chucho Valdés (*9th of October 1941), born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. 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 Bebo Valdés.
Chucho has won five Grammy awards - one in 1978 for the album Live at Newport by Irakere, a second 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, and the third in 2003 for his album Live at the Village Vanguard.
In 2008 Sony released an album of Chucho playing with his father Bebo Valdés.

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 Daniela
Daniela club
Bailo delante de mi ordenador, dear Simona :-)))
15 years ago.
 Wolfgang
Wolfgang club
thank you very much, dear Daniela, but who is Simona?
15 years ago.
 Daniela
Daniela club
Excuse me, dear Wolfgang !
15 years ago.

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