Bebo Valdes
Bebo De Cuba: 2 CDs Plus DVD (Three Disk Package) NTSC
Import
CD
(Calle 54 Records/BMG Ariola 64203 (NTSC)),
Released 2004;
Produced by Fernando Trueba and Nat Chediak
Arranged by Bebo Valdés
Editor's Pick:
Originally released with the DVD in PAL format. Now available here on NTSC...
Here was our original review:
Yet another gem from Bebo, whose late career is as prolific and fertile as any time in life. The album includes two CDs, one called Suite Cubana, the other El Solar de Bebo. Suite Cubana is a big band album that features some of the best musicians in the Latin world, including the reeds of Paquito, Bobby Porcelli, Mario Rivera and Bob Franceschini, the trumpets of Michael Philip Mossman, Diego Urcola, Ray Vega, the trombones of J. P. Torres, Luis Bonilla and Papo Vazquez. The rhythm section includes John Benitez on bass Dafnis on drums, Milton Cardona on percussion, along with Joe Gonzalez and Rickard Valdez. It's a big band Latin jazz record, and it swings fully, with huge orchestral swells. It's firmly in the orchestral vocabulary of the 40s through 1960s, and as usual, the music is laden with Bebo's grace.
The second cd includes Paquito, J.P Torres, Diego Urcola, Andy Gonzalez, Milton Cardona, Jimmy Delgado and Steve Berrios on drums, along with a few others. It's astonishingly intimate, and like all Bebo albums the music is profoundly knowing, moving carefully between the swing of the United States and the swing of Cuba. It's almost intentionally small, with edited, minimal gestures suggesting world of music and experience.
The DVD is Bebo being interviewed by producer Nat Chediak, as well as behind-the-scene footage of rehearsals.
These records, in a hundred years, will be considered great examples of a style and a way of thinking. They're not to be underestimated. Highly recommended.
DVD: NTSC format. (Peter Watrous, 2005-06-28)
Song titles include:
Compact Disk 1 - Suite Cubana:
Är Ni Fröken Pehrson? (Intro)
Cachao, Creador Del Mambo
Devoción
El Son De Cecilio
Ecuación
Copla No. 4
Nocturno En Batanga
Är Ni Fröken Pehrson? (Comparsa)
Compact Disk 2 - El Solar De Bebo:
El Solar De Bebo
Kabul Y Lorenzo
A Mayra
El Quitrín (Haciendo Patria)
La Mula
Rose Marie
Iballah
De Baracutey
Miriam
El Guajeo De Rickard
Musicians include:
Bebo Valdes Piano
Paquito D'Rivera Saxos alto y soprano, clarinete
Bobby Porcelli Saxo alto
Mario Rivera, Bob Franceschini Saxo tenor
Pablo Colagero Saxo barítono
Diego Úrcola, Michael Philip Mossman, Ray Vega, Raúl Agraz, John Walsh Trompeta
Juan Pablo Torres, Luís Bonilla, Papo Vázquez, Douglas Purviance Trombón
Edgardo Miranda Guitarra
John Benitez Bass
Dafnis Prieto Drums
Milton Cardona Congas, shékere
Joe González Bongós, güiro
Rickard Valdés, Jimmy Delgado Timbales
Steve Berrios Batería, timbales
Andy González Contrabajo
Category: Salsa/Son
=> Son, Guaracha, Guajira
=> Cuba
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