"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 4/12/24)
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Critic Consensus
Based on 5 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Chucho Valdes is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth seeing. Chucho Valdes concert reviews describe live shows and performances as inventive and incredible.
Winner of eight Grammy Awards: five Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy and creditor of many doctorates, Dionisio Jesus "Chucho" Valdes Rodriguez is natural from Quivican, Havana Province, Cuba. The son of the noted musician Bebo Valdes, Chucho began playing piano when he was three and by the time he was 16 he was leading his own group.
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The Guardian (UK)
October 25, 2016
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On the first of two nights at Ronnie Scott’s the quintet played some robust originals and put inventive Cuban spins on both swing classics and Thelonious Monk quotes with lyricism and wit.
Now celebrating their 40th anniversary under the brilliant pianist Chucho Valdes’s continuing leadership Irakere are a hurricane where the Buena Vistas were a summer breeze.
Chucho Valdes, 70 years old and 6ft5in, strides on to the stage wearing a suit and a Kangol beret, looking like a retired Black Panther. He proceeds to play the piano like a cross between the Incredible Hulk and Felix the Cat, thumping out block chords, rattling out octaves and playing complicated flourishes
Valdes's octave span might even have frightened Rachmaninov and his headlong keyboard exploits – traversing most of jazz piano history and often veering into classical – sound as if they might burst open the doors.
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