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Cast
Chucho Valdés
Hilario Durán
John Beasley
José A. Gola
Dafnis Prieto
Roberto Jr. Vizcaíno
Erick Barbería
Yosvani González Franco
Felipe Sarria Linares
Yeni Valdés
Brian Lynch
Etienne Charles
Marcus Strickland
Carlos Fernandez Averhoff Jr.
Program notes
Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, spend a jazzy evening in the company of the extraordinary Chucho Valdés—renowned composer, dynamite pianist, expert arranger, and legendary pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz. After 60 years on the scene, the veteran knows how to light up the stage as a soloist or bring his ingenuity into perfect harmony with an ensemble.
Valdés opens the festivities with an incredible recital, with more and more musicians coming to join him onstage in the leadup to act two: La Creación, a composition by Valdés through which he recounts the emergence of West African Yoruba culture in the Caribbean. Under the direction of the man himself, piano, drums, bass, Batà drums, Creole choir, trumpets, and saxophones present a captivating and vibrant homage to Afro-Cuban fusion, of which Valdés is one of the greatest representatives.
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