Chucho Valdez and the Irakere Orchestra: background, influences and contributions to Cuban music and Latin-jazz in Cuba.
Background, influences and contributions to Cuban music and Latin-jazz in Cuba.
Abstract
The following work deals with Latin-jazz in Cuba, based on the process of gestation and creation of the Irakere orchestra, directed by the renowned Cuban pianist Dionisio Jesús Valdez Rodríguez (Chucho Valdez). The parameters that influenced the creation of this orchestra are analyzed, as well as its unique sound, the particularity of its repertoire and the excellence of all its members, who together made great musical contributions to contribute to the development of jazz, Latin-jazz and Cuban music in general; breaking with many of the schemes and stereotypes imposed at that time, full of political and social conflicts, in order to give way to what is known today as Cuban Latin-jazz.
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