JAZZ BATA 2 / Chucho Valdes
Mack Avenue (2018)
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About Album
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. That album upon release was originally considered experimental at the time, but the trio project – featuring no drum set and two virtuosi who would subsequently be charter members of Irakere: Carlos del Puerto (bass) and Oscar Valdés (batâ: the sacred, hourglass shaped drums of the Yoruba religion in Cuba) – would now be considered contemporary.
Song List
- 1. Obatala
- 2. Son XXI
- 3. Luces
- 4. Ochun
- 5. Chucho's Mood
- 6. 100 Anos De Bebo
- 7. El Guije
- 8. The Clown
Comments
"On Jazz Batá 2, Valdés pays a musical debt to his father, Ramón 'Bebo' Valdés, one of the most influential Cuban big-band leaders of the 20th century."
DownBeat