Chucho Vald?s: Irakere 40

Winner of five Grammy and three Latin Grammy awards, the Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. Irakere is the small, Cuban-style big band that he founded 40 years ago, still going strong with an explosive mix of jazz, rock, classical, Afro-Cuban and traditional Cuban music.

“A pianist of imperial command, possessed of a dazzling, deceptively casual virtuosity.” —The New York Times

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