Description
Chucho Valdés – Fantásia Cubana - Variations On Classical Themes / Blue Note Audio CD 2002
UPC 724355718921
Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho Valdés (born October 9, 1941), is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. In 1965 the young pianist left Elio Reve's Charangon to pursue a jazz career. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Both his father, Bebo Valdés, and his son, Chuchito, are pianists as well. His wife is Lorena Salsedo. As a solo artist, he has won four Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards.
| Label: | Blue Note – 7243 5 57189 2 1 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | US |
| Released: |
2002 |
| Genre: | Jazz, Latin, Classical |
| Style: | Modern, Contemporary, Romantic |
Tracklist:
| 1 |
Chopin: Prelude In E Minor |
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4:25
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| Three Faces Of Leguona: La Comparsa | |||
| 2 |
No. 1 |
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1:35
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| 3 |
No. 2 |
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3:50
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| 4 | No. 3 |
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3:27
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| 5 | Wakamba |
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5:32
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| 6 | Debussy: Reverie & Arabesque |
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4:31
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| 7 | Chopin: Waltz In A Minor |
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5:12
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| 8 | Sunrise |
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2:12
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| 9 | My Reverie |
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4:35
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| 10 | Fantasia Cubana |
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4:01
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| 11 | Ravel: Pavane For A Dead Princess |
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4:55
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| 12 | Tumbão |
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4:45
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| 13 | La Campesina |
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2:04
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| 14 | Impromptu |
| 2:44 |
- Art Direction – Jessica Novod-Berenblat
- Engineer [Recording] – Dirk Sobotka
- Illustration [Illustrations] – Philippe Lardy
- Photography By – Scott Pasfield
- Piano – Chucho Valdés
- Producer, Engineer – Max Wilcox
