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Chucho Valdes & Irakere 50 Featuring Arturo Sandoval

February 22, 2025 @ 8:00 PM PST

Chucho Valdes & Irakere 50 Featuring Arturo Sandoval

The son of Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés, the winner of seven GRAMMYs and four Latin GRAMMY Awards joined Armando Romeu’s celebrated Cuban Orchestra of Modern Music in 1967, a time when the communist government still considered American jazz anti-revolutionary. He was already recognized as the most formidable pianist of his generation when he launched Irakere in 1973 with a phenomenal cast that included Sandoval and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera. Discovered and introduced internationally by Dizzy Gillespie, the band’s unprecedented synthesis of folkloric Afro-Cuban rhythms, sacred drums, rock, funk, R&B, and jazz opened vast new frontiers, and helped pave the way for the pervasively popular dance music known as timba.

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Date:
February 22, 2025
Time:
8:00 PM PST
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Website:
https://tinyurl.com/yuaweh78

Venue

Paramount Theatre
2025 Broadway between 20th and 21st Streets
Oakland, CA United States
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Phone
510-465-6400
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