The Valdés, Cuban jazz doctors
Bebo and Chucho, father and son, were appointed honorary Berklee
CARLOS GALILEE
"The time my most enjoyable musical with Bebo is owed to Trueba, San Fernando, as I say jokingly, that gave us the opportunity to play together in the film Calle 54 . I think the picture says it all and now is for the story, "says Chucho Valdes, who also remembers Together forever, disco recorded in 2007 in Madrid. "It was in session and a half, almost every single shot, and is a conversation between teacher and student, parent and child. Bebo still sees me as when I was 18 and was treated the same. In the recording beckoning me, just like when I was learning to play, "he says laughing. Now, an important distinction of the music business, the appointment as honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music, reunites father and son. Chucho
: "I was influenced by Bebo at all, then I found myself"
Jesus Dionisio Rodríguez Valdés, Chucho , and Dionisio Ramon Emilio Valdés Amaro, Bebo, born in Quivicán, Havana, 9 October (1918 Bebo, Chucho, 1941). Together they will receive on May 7, at a ceremony at Boston University, the distinction proposed by the CEO of SGAE Eduardo Bautista. "I think my dad deserves a lot for everything he has made since its inception in filin genre that transformed and enriched the harmony of the Cuban song. All those issues, which have the hand as an arranger Bebo, have been classics. He made the batanga rhythm and tested the bata drums in the jazz band when no one had done and his work as a pianist and composer is a school. If I also I recognize the legacy of the group Irakere The rest is a double celebration.
For the family home of Santa Amalia went great performers. "There were three houses of musicians attached. More people would always like Celia Cruz, Elena Burke, Miguelito Valdés, Benny Moré, Cuni, Lecuona ... Imagine! The greatest privilege is to have seen it, "he says." I had a tremendous influence across Bebo. Then, over time, I was finding Chucho ".
few months ago he published Chucho's steps-title inspired by the classic Coltrane, at the head of the Afro Cuban Messengers" a nod to Art Blakey. "It's easy to do the same thing but I got bored. I wanted break the rhythm that was created with Irakere and see if I'm still lucid to keep creating. The first was to change the rhythms of Yoruba music is made of metrical form, but when you render it asymmetric key change, the music of the batás are not equal. We were working on it and looking for free structures. It took seven years. "
in Chucho's steps is a piece for Marsalis (New Orleans) and Zawinul's mambo, dedicated to the late creator of In a Silent Way." Zawinul and I met in Cuba when Weather Report went on to play the festival Havana Jam. He heard Irakere and loved it, but I said 'there you are limited as a pianist, why You do not develop those things that I heard you are great? '. I insisted I had to play the piano, "she recalls, laughing," and should have listened before. "Chucho Valdés
In 1997 he signed with Blue Note label for which he has recorded albums at Lincoln Center or the Village Vanguard The New York club where his picture hangs on a wall between the portraits of Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. "When I see him, I still play to see if I'm asleep and I'm going to wake up."
These days he published his Omara Portuondo disc, recorded 14 years after challenges, and that the two will-only performance in Spain in La Mar de Músicas. Omara and Chucho entitled. "Omara is singing and saying. As Billie Holiday, which went far beyond what was the melody. The way to accompany me is much more sedate, but also much deeper.'re Invited Wynton Marsalis, who plays a topic precious to us. "
Chucho has played with Charles Aznavour, Michel Legrand, Concha Buika, Diego el Cigala and Pablo Milanés, "It's harder to be a companion to solo. When you accompany a singer you have to adapt to what you like, play the way you are doing. The piano accompanist is like a tailor. Bebo taught me that. "
Bebo and Chucho, father and son, were appointed honorary Berklee
CARLOS GALILEE
"The time my most enjoyable musical with Bebo is owed to Trueba, San Fernando, as I say jokingly, that gave us the opportunity to play together in the film Calle 54 . I think the picture says it all and now is for the story, "says Chucho Valdes, who also remembers Together forever, disco recorded in 2007 in Madrid. "It was in session and a half, almost every single shot, and is a conversation between teacher and student, parent and child. Bebo still sees me as when I was 18 and was treated the same. In the recording beckoning me, just like when I was learning to play, "he says laughing. Now, an important distinction of the music business, the appointment as honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music, reunites father and son. Chucho
: "I was influenced by Bebo at all, then I found myself"
Jesus Dionisio Rodríguez Valdés, Chucho , and Dionisio Ramon Emilio Valdés Amaro, Bebo, born in Quivicán, Havana, 9 October (1918 Bebo, Chucho, 1941). Together they will receive on May 7, at a ceremony at Boston University, the distinction proposed by the CEO of SGAE Eduardo Bautista. "I think my dad deserves a lot for everything he has made since its inception in filin genre that transformed and enriched the harmony of the Cuban song. All those issues, which have the hand as an arranger Bebo, have been classics. He made the batanga rhythm and tested the bata drums in the jazz band when no one had done and his work as a pianist and composer is a school. If I also I recognize the legacy of the group Irakere The rest is a double celebration.
For the family home of Santa Amalia went great performers. "There were three houses of musicians attached. More people would always like Celia Cruz, Elena Burke, Miguelito Valdés, Benny Moré, Cuni, Lecuona ... Imagine! The greatest privilege is to have seen it, "he says." I had a tremendous influence across Bebo. Then, over time, I was finding Chucho ".
few months ago he published Chucho's steps-title inspired by the classic Coltrane, at the head of the Afro Cuban Messengers" a nod to Art Blakey. "It's easy to do the same thing but I got bored. I wanted break the rhythm that was created with Irakere and see if I'm still lucid to keep creating. The first was to change the rhythms of Yoruba music is made of metrical form, but when you render it asymmetric key change, the music of the batás are not equal. We were working on it and looking for free structures. It took seven years. "
in Chucho's steps is a piece for Marsalis (New Orleans) and Zawinul's mambo, dedicated to the late creator of In a Silent Way." Zawinul and I met in Cuba when Weather Report went on to play the festival Havana Jam. He heard Irakere and loved it, but I said 'there you are limited as a pianist, why You do not develop those things that I heard you are great? '. I insisted I had to play the piano, "she recalls, laughing," and should have listened before. "Chucho Valdés
In 1997 he signed with Blue Note label for which he has recorded albums at Lincoln Center or the Village Vanguard The New York club where his picture hangs on a wall between the portraits of Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. "When I see him, I still play to see if I'm asleep and I'm going to wake up."
These days he published his Omara Portuondo disc, recorded 14 years after challenges, and that the two will-only performance in Spain in La Mar de Músicas. Omara and Chucho entitled. "Omara is singing and saying. As Billie Holiday, which went far beyond what was the melody. The way to accompany me is much more sedate, but also much deeper.'re Invited Wynton Marsalis, who plays a topic precious to us. "
Chucho has played with Charles Aznavour, Michel Legrand, Concha Buika, Diego el Cigala and Pablo Milanés, "It's harder to be a companion to solo. When you accompany a singer you have to adapt to what you like, play the way you are doing. The piano accompanist is like a tailor. Bebo taught me that. "
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