Chucho Valdés (born October 9, 1941), born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists. His father is the famed Cuban pianist and former director of Havana's famous "Tropicana" night club band Bebo Valdés.
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Eric Beck Rubin’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Ten Clear Days
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"...the protagonist is a music lover, a concert goer, and music of a
certain kind, in a certain register, can be imagined as floating around the
edges of t...
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