The thing about the Martin Theatre is there’s not quite enough room to dance. That didn’t stop audiences from trying anyway on Wednesday, when Irakere, the storied Cuban band, visited Ravinia for its ...

If the ground trembles a bit around the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday, February 9, don’t blame the State Road 836 construction project down the street. With an as-of-now sold-out house and a trio of ...

"They were smoking." That was KPFA's Art Sato, host of "In Your Ear"—a weekly Saturday afternoon Latin Jazz, jazz and flamenco music program on KPFA in Berkeley, California—evaluating legendary Cuban ...

Rumor Records' Jazz Cuba series cherry picks from 300 recordings made primarily for local consumption from the mid 1950s through the late 1980s at the Panart and Areito studios in Havana, Cuba. Some ...

The project, which Valdés founded in 1973, brought the sacred percussion and incantations of Afro-Cuban religious music to jazz. By Judy Cantor-Navas On Oct. 20, Chucho Valdés opens his Irakere 40 ...

Kupferberg Center for the Arts will present Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50, a powerful tribute to the legendary Cuban ensemble that transformed Afro-Cuban jazz. Taking place on Thursday, May 8 at 8 PM at ...

Performances of instrumental music often embody a tension between virtuoso display and the casting of narrative spells: look-no-hands acrobatics and the dreamlike weave of ancient storytelling. The ...

Founded in Havana in 1973 by pianist Chucho Valdés, Irakere was the undisputed powerhouse of Afro-Cuban jazz, numbering giants like Arturo Sandoval and Paquito D'Rivera among its alumni. The band’s ...

The great Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés and his country’s 40-year-old Irakere band played in London shortly before this recording at France’s Marciac festival was made. Those who were leaping in the ...

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