Chuchito Valdès LIVE at Jazz UpFront

Name: Chuchito Valdès LIVE at Jazz UpFront
Start: 2025-09-05T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-05T23:00:00-05:00
Location: Jazz UpFront

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Jazz UpFront | Bloomington, IL

🎶 Back by popular demand! 🎹 Don’t miss Grammy Award winner Chuchito Valdés and his incredible band with special guest Frank Parker lighting up the stage at Jazz UpFront!
🎟 $20 in advance online at www.jazzupfront.com | $25 at the door
🔥 This will sell out—secure your seat now!
In a career spanning more than 60 years, both as a solo artist and bandleader, Mr. Valdés has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban music tradition, jazz, classical music, rock, and more, into a deeply personal style. Winner of seven GRAMMY® and four Latin GRAMMY® Awards, Mr. Valdés, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Science last year and was also inducted in the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
His most recent project on record, Jazz Batá 2, revisits a revolutionary idea Mr. Valdés first recorded in 1972: a piano jazz trio featuring batá drums, the sacred, hourglass-shaped drums used in the ritual music of the Yoruba religion in Cuba, in place of the conventional trap set.
Jazz Batá 2 won a Latin Grammy as Best Latin Jazz album and was selected as one of Billboard magazine's list of The 50 Best Latin Albums of the Decade.