JAZZCUBA VOL.4
Guapacho''WITH BEBO VALDES ORCHESTRA''
(CUBA, 2007) @
pianist Bebo Valdes is a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, father of Chucho Valdés. Began his career as a pianist in one of the most popular orchestras of the time, Julio Cueva, for which he composes the mambo "The rarity of the century." Takes the forties and the famous Cuban bassist, Israel Lopez Cachao change the course of Cuban music with his danzón "Mambo." Bebo joins Armando Romeu's orchestra at the Tropicana, the most famous cabaret of the island in a short time, the famous cabaret musical adviser. The producer Norman Granz, excited by the reaction to Afro-Cuban jazz in New York, recommends that Valdes in 1952 the first Cuban jazz downloads recorded on the island. At that time, the orchestra Valdes is heard on the radio to the length and breadth of the island. One of the vocalists is Benny More, who is inspired to form his own big band. For its part, Bebo created a new rhythm, the outrigger, and continues to compose. One of his songs, "Rimando cha-cha-cha" is a success for the Riverside Orchestra. Signed to accompany the artists on the label Gema. Among them is a singer of incomparable phrasing, "The guapachoso" Rolando Laserie, whose popularity is only surpassed by Moré.
At the beginning of the sixties in Mexico, is musical director of the Chilean bolero singer Lucho Gatica. He toured Europe with the Havana Cuban Boys. Creator of the outrigger, his life was changed one hundred eighty degrees when in 1960 decided to exile in Sweden where they took root and created his own family staying away from music for a long time. His first contract led him to play for six months in a club the Arctic Circle. In Stockholm, falls in love, marries, and joins in the deepest anonymity. Spend more than thirty years. On November 25, 1994, Bebo gets a call from Paquito D'Rivera, inviting him to record a new album in Germany. Three days later, D'Rivera produces Bebo Rides Again, a collection of Cuban classics and original Valdés written especially for the occasion. The time is not wasted. It sounds better than ever. Start a new career in his seventy-six years.
In 2000 he launched the film directed by Fernando Trueba, Calle 54, along with a double CD soundtrack of the same. The success was extraordinary, it is a historical encounters among the largest Latin Jazz among those who have participated, among others, Bebo Valdes, Tito Puente, Eliane Elias, Jerry Gonzalez, Michel Camilo, Paquito D'Rivera himself, Cachao and many other amazing musicians, Afro-Latinos. His latest album, with Lola Records, entitled "The Art of Flavor" with Cachao and Patato was released in April 2001. He has been granted by the same Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Album.
A 85, Bebo Valdes is already recognized as one of the greatest living figures in international music. His album Lágrimas Negras with the flamenco singer Diego el Cigala, have placed new Cuban pianist in full today. Lagrimas Negras is a global success and is published throughout the world, winning a Latin Grammy. Bebo's latest project so far is their involvement in Fernando Trueba's latest film entitled "The Miracle of Candeal" a film that features, among other things, the history of Bebo Valdés trip to Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) to reconnect with their African origins. Source
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