La misa negra irakere biography

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    Ese atrevimiento: interviewing Chucho Valdés (in Irakere's 50s).

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    In those first seventeen minutes and thirty-seven seconds many things happened in my body, but I remember best what happened in my head: the vain effort to make sense of the abstractions; the exaltation, the amazement that what seemed unbeatable grew. I didn't need to understand anything but I was tempted to want to understand everything: what kind of mass could tell you so much even if its languages were unknown to you? How had they done it, who and why in those "strange" ways? Had seventeen minutes and thirty-seven seconds really passed and I wanted to repeat?

    TheMisa Negra was also the beginning of a form of longing. Perhaps I have solved some questions but it is more certain that, twenty years later, the astonishment and impact persist. I think something similar happens to many of us with Irakere. It doesn't matter how many times one has listened to their songs or how much one understands, or doesn'

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    To celebrate #InternationalJazzDay this 30 April &#; watch this interview with Chucho Valdes &#; Cuban jazz pianist, composer, founder and leader of the legendary grupp Irakere, and winner of six Grammys and three Latin Grammys &#; talking with the US församling Library&#;s Claudia Morales about his childhood, his career, his connection with his late father (and famous pianist) att bo eller uppehålla sig någonstans Valdes and his next projects, in spanish with english subtitles.

    &#;Tell me, looking back, what do you think fryst vatten Irakere&#;s legacy to music?&#;
    >> Chucho Valdés: Look, now inom can säga it. When we were doing it, we were doing what we wanted to do, what we thought we should do, but without any pretensions.
    &#;So Irakere really was a concept that created a starting point for another framtidsperspektiv of what Afro-Cuban music was. First, it was taking the elements of jazz and the most modern jazz, going to the African roots and using all the rhythms, using the instruments, including the Yoruba language, the Lu

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    Irakere

    Cuban band founded by pianist Chucho Valdés

    Irakere

    OriginHavana, Cuba
    GenresSongo, Latin jazz, jazz fusion, Afro-Cuban jazz
    Years active&#;()–present
    LabelsAreito, Bembe, Columbia, Milestone, Blue Note, Far Out
    MembersJorge Luis Valdés Chicoy
    Irving Michel Acao
    Basilio Márquez
    Julio Padrón
    Adel González
    Maikel Ante
    Past membersChucho Valdés
    Arturo Sandoval
    Paquito D'Rivera
    Anga Díaz
    Carlos Emilio Morales
    Carlos Averhoff
    Carlos del Puerto
    Oscar Valdés
    Jorge Varona
    José Luis Cortés "El Tosco"
    Bernardo Garcia
    Enrique Plá
    Jorge Alfonso "El Niño"
    Armando Cuervo
    Carlos Barbón
    Germán Velazco
    Juan Munguía
    José Miguel Crego "El Greco"
    César López
    Orlando Valle "Maraca"
    Adalberto Lara
    Mayra Caridad Valdés
    Jorge Reyes
    Román Filiú
    Lázaro Alfonso "El Tato"
    Chuchito Valdés
    José Miguel
    Fran Padilla
    Mario Hernanadez "El Indio"

    Irakere (faux-Yoruba for "forest")[1] is a Cuban band founded by pianist Chucho Valdés (son of Bebo Valdés) in