Tribute to Irakere : live in Marciac / Chucho Valdés.
Material type:![Music](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/MU.png)
- performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Produced by Chuco Valdés.
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Main Library | CD | JAZZ Valdes, Chucho | Available | 33111009047370 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Four decades ago, Chucho Valdes revolutionized Cuba's musical landscape as leader of the jazz ensemble Irakere, whose soundworld and arrangements remain strikingly modern to this day. For forty years, the volcanic energy of the music of Irakere, propelled by dance rhythms and symphonic orchestrations, brought to lifea fantasy universe filled with untamed creatures and sounds of mythical drums.
Jazz.
Title from disc label.
Chucho Valdés, piano ; with: Yaroldy Abreu Robles, percussion, vocals ; Rafael Águila, alto sax ; Rodney Barreto, drums, vocals ; Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé, batás, lead vocals ; Ariel Bringuez, tenor sax ; Gastón Joya, double bass, vocals ; Manuel Machado, Reinaldo Melián, Carlos Sarduy, trumpet.
Produced by Chuco Valdés.
Recorded live August 3, 2015 at Jazz in Marciac, France.
Compact disc.
Composed, arranged and conducted by Chucho Valdés.
Program notes in Spanish with English and French translations inserted in container.
Valdes performs reinvented versions of music he originally performed with his band Irakere.
Juana 1600 (7:57) -- Lorena's tango (8:08) -- Congadanza (10:34) -- Afro-Comanche (17:56) -- Afro-funk (7:11) -- Yansá (17:52).