Chucho Valdés

Date:

Friday, December 06, 2019

Venue:

Berklee Performance Center

Location:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Notes:

Jazz Batá, a new project of pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés(Opens in a new window), features Yelsy Heredia on acoustic bass and Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé on percussion and voice.

In 1972, one year before he founded the transcendent Afro-Cuban jazz rock ensemble Irakere, Valdés experimented with a trio that, although largely ignored at the time, proved crucial for his musical development. The trio is composed of piano, acoustic bass, and batá, the hourglass-shaped drum essential in the ritual music of Yoruba religion best known as Santeria.

Afro-Cuban Jazz, Jazz, Latin, Latin Jazz, Nueva Trova, Son Cubano, Piano, Musica Tradicional Cubana, Cuba, Jazz Piano, and Jazz Cubano.