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Jazz Batá 2

Chucho Valdés

Jazz Batá 2

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Mack Avenue
UPC: 0673203114623
Catnr: MAC 1146
Release date: 16 November 2018
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Label
Mack Avenue
UPC
0673203114623
Catalogue number
MAC 1146
Release date
16 November 2018

"Themes that are translated musically with a rich color palette of styles and cultural influences from North Africa and Turkey in particular."

Jazzism, 26-4-2019
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Jazz Batá 2, composer, pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés’ first album for Mack Avenue Records, marks a new peak of creativity for the artist, even
as it revisits the small-group concept of his 1972 Cuban album Jazz Batá. Recorded in two and a half days at John Lee’s studio in New Jersey, Jazz Batá 2 is both rhythmic and lyrical at once. The six-hand complexity of the batá repertoire – the deep classical music of West Africa – permeates Valdés’ piano solos throughout the album. “I applied to my solos the different rhythms of the batá,” he says. “The piano is of course a harmonic instrument, but it’s percussive too, and you can play percussion with it.” Jazz Batá 2 also marks the centenary of Valdés’ father and teacher, Ramón “Bebo” Valdés (1918-2013). These two giants of Cuban music shared a birthday– October 9 – so Bebo’s 100th will be Chucho’s 77th. Between the two of them, they’ve exercised a massive musical influence since the 1940s. This stretch of time reinforces the enduring and magnificent career Valdés has cultivated over the 77 years of his life, with no signs of slowing down.

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Regina Carter (violin)

Yelsy Heredia (double bass)

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Themes that are translated musically with a rich color palette of styles and cultural influences from North Africa and Turkey in particular.
Jazzism, 26-4-2019

A beautiful album of this atypical jazz trio in which the normal drums are by no means missed, on the contrary the various percussion instruments provide an extremely mottled rhythmic landscape. Highly recommended for both the jazz lover and the fan of Afro Cuban sounds.
Rootstime, 04-12-2018

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