Better than: Sitting at home, twitching with anger because Time Warner denied me the chance to watch the Knicks lose to the Nuggets in double-overtime. It was way past union curfew at Symphony Space ...

Kupferberg Center for the Arts will present Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50, a powerful tribute to the legendary Cuban ensemble that transformed Afro-Cuban jazz. Taking place on Thursday, May 8 at 8 PM at ...

A restless visionary forever evolving Afro-Cuban music, Chucho Valdés is as creative and playful as ever on Cuba & Beyond. To see Valdés in a city near you as he celebrates 50 years of Irakere in ...

Pianist Chucho Valdés is the past, present and future of Cuban piano. Throughout over six decades as a professional musician, he has performed in a variety of small groups and large orchestras, always ...

1. A Mi Madre (Valdes) - 7:33 2. Munequita Linda (Grieber) - 4:38 3. Rumba Guajira (Valdes) - 6:22 4. Besame Mucho (Velasquez) - 7:02 5. El Manicero (Simon) - 4:56 6. Somewhere over the Rainbow (Arlen ...

A supergroup can be as much a treat for the players as for its listeners. Saxophonist Joe Lovano, singer Dianne Reeves, and pianist Chucho Valdes seemed as jazzed—so to speak—about their summit ...

Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes talks with Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés about his new album, "Cuba and Beyond." ...

"Solo: Live in New York" Blue Note Even when Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval were in Cuba's top modern-jazz combo, Irakere, pianist Chucho Valdes was always the bandleader. He earned that ...

Click here for the original audio. We revisit host Deepa Fernandes' September 2024 conversation with Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdes with "¡Con Salsa!" host José C. Massó translating. Valdes' ...