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A1: Canto A La Habana ()
A2: Ahora Vendo Otra Cosa ()
A3: Nunca En Domingo ()
A4: Al Comp?s De La Charanga ()
A5: El Cumbanchero ()
B1: Pon Pon Pon ()
B2: Conga Espirituana ()
B3: Que La Juzgue Dios ()
B4: Al Son De La Mexicana ()
B5: A Bailar () |
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| Description: | Dionisio Ramon Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was born in Cuba in 1918.
He is considered one of the pivotal figures in Cuban music. Trained as a pianist, he also became a master arranged and conductor and worked with figures like Olga Guillot, Celia Cruz or Elena Burke.
A trip to Haiti in the 1940s arised his interest in African rooted music, and on his return in La Havana, performing at the legendary Tropicana cabaret under the direction of Armando Romeu, he started including these rhythms in his sound becoming a prominent figure in Afro-Cuban jazz. He worked with big names like Joséphine Baker and Nat King Cole. He had been playing for ten years at the Tropicana when a bomb exploded very near his piano in the middle of his performance, he nearly died. He quit the Tropicana and benefited of the rising of television broadcast in the 1950s, getting even more fame in several Cuban TV shows until 1958, when he emigrated to Mexico first to finally set in Sweden, were he has Paramount in establishing a world taste for Afro-Cuban jazz.
His career saw a big rebirth when in 1994 he teamed with saxophonist Paquito dâ??Rivera and, in a more mainstream way, with Fernando Truebaâ??s Calle 54 movie. He had kept busy since then until his passing in 2013. he is acknowledged as one of the originators of Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban music. - Shellac Disc |
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SHELL038 |
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