Chucho Valdes

Name: Chucho Valdes
Start: 2025-02-23T04:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-23T06:00:00-08:00
Location: Paramount Theatre Oakland

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 04:00 am to 06:00 am

UTC-08:00

Location

Paramount Theatre Oakland | Oakland, CA

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. 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 six 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, 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. 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
📍 Venue: Paramount Theatre Oakland
🏠 Address: 2025 Broadway
🗺️ Extended Address: Oakland, CA 94612
🌆 City: Oakland
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