{"id":4005,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/chucho-valdes-fantasia-cubana\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"chucho-valdes-fantasia-cubana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4005","title":{"rendered":"Chucho Vald\u00e9s &#8211; Fantasia Cubana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Fantasia Cubana<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Chucho Vald\u00e9s<\/strong><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12px\"><br \/>(Blue Note &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by Ray Redmond<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">    The son of the noted musician <b>Bebo Vald\u00e9s<\/b>, <b>Chucho Vald\u00e9s<\/b> is acknowledged as one of the masters of the Afro-Cuban musical idiom. Playing piano since he was three, he was leading his own group at 16 and eventually founded the famed group <b>Irakere<\/b> with <b>Arturo Sandoval<\/b>, <b>Paquito D&#8217;Rivera<\/b> and others.  Now Vald\u00e9s presents us with a group of solo piano performances by such masters as <i>Chopin, Debussy, and Ravel.<\/i> Trained by <i>Zenaida Romeu<\/i>, Vald\u00e9s calls <i>Fantasia Cubana<\/i> the &#8220;realization of a lifelong dream&#8221; that began with piano lessons as a boy.<\/p>\n<p>  On the CD Vald\u00e9s also pays tribute to the great Cuban composer <i>Ernesto Lecuona<\/i> who founded the Havana Symphony by performing three contrasting versions of <i>La Comparsa<\/i>. Vald\u00e9s skills are evident throughout, at times wandering wondrously around like some old <i>George Winston<\/i> pieces, then resurging with an original like the percussive <i>Wakamba<\/i>. <i>Variations on Classical Themes<\/i> gives us a chance to hear Chucho stretch out and show his classical chops.        <\/font>              <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasia Cubana Chucho Vald\u00e9s(Blue Note &#8211; 2002) by Ray Redmond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}