Mar 28, 2019

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Today's artist was a top-notch pianist/composer/arranger, he was the musical director of nightclub shows at the Tropicana in Havana by 1948. Very active in the 1950s, he was considered one of the giants of Cuban music, arranging many recordings, composing mambos, and organizing Afro-Cuban jazz jam sessions. He defected from Cuba in 1960 and by 1963 had settled in Stockholm. In 1994, after 34 years off records, he cut Bebo Rides Again for the Messidor label, not only playing piano but composing eight numbers and arranging 11 songs in the 36 hours before the first session; he was 76 at the time......N'Joy

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Bebo Valdés was born Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro on October 9, 1918, in the village of Quivicán, Cuba, near Havana. He started his career as a pianist in the nightclubs of Havana during the 1940s. He replaced René Hernández as pianist and arranger in Julio Cueva's band. In October 1946 the band recorded "Rareza del Siglo", one of Bebo's most famous mambos. From 1948 to 1957 he worked as pianist and arranger for the vedette Rita Montaner, who was the lead act in the Tropicana cabaret. His orchestra, Sabor de Cuba, and that of Armando Valdés, alternated at the Tropicana, backing singers such as Benny Moré and Pío Leyva. Valdés played a role in the adaptation of the mambo into the big band format (it was previously performed by charangas) during the late 1940s and 1950s, and developed a new rhythm to compete with Perez Prado's mambo, called the batanga. Valdés was also an important figure in the incipient Afro-Cuban jazz scene in Havana, taking part in sessions commissioned by American producer Norman Granz during 1952. These sessions yielded the famous improvised piece "Con Poco Coco" among others, which served as a precedent to Panart's descarga sessions (with one exception). In the late 1950s he recorded with Nat "King" Cole. In 1960, accompanied by Sabor de Cuba's lead vocalist Rolando Laserie, Bebo defected from Cuba to Mexico. He then lived briefly in the United States before touring Europe, and eventually settled in Stockholm, where he lived until 2007. In Sweden he was instrumental in spreading the techniques of Cuban music and Latin jazz.

Valdés' career got a late career boost in 1994 when he teamed up with saxophone player Paquito D'Rivera to release a CD called Bebo Rides Again. In 2000, the film Calle 54 by Fernando Trueba brought his piano playing to a wide audience. In 2003, he and Diego El Cigala, a famous Spanish cantaor (flamenco singer), recorded the album Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears), a fusion of Cuban rhythms and flamenco vocals. During his career, Valdés—one of the founders of Latin jazz, and a pioneer in bringing Afro-Cuban sacred rhythms to popular dance music—won seven Grammy Awards: two for El Arte del Sabor (2002), one for Lágrimas Negras, and two for Bebo de Cuba in 2006 (in the categories "Best Traditional Tropical Album" and "Best Latin Jazz Album").

His last musical production was one fittingly recorded with his son: Bebo y Chucho Valdés: Juntos para Siempre (Together Forever 2008),[10] winner of the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010; they also won the Latin Grammy Award on the same field. In 2004, he was again filmed by Trueba, in El milagro de Candeal in Brazil, and later composed a score for Trueba's 2010 film Chico and Rita, which included bits from his own life. Chico and Rita ends with the dedication "a Bebo". In May 2011, Bebo Valdés was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.

Valdés was married to Pilar Valdés. This marriage produced five children, one of whom is the pianist Chucho Valdés. In 1963 he stopped in Sweden on a tour with the Lecuona Cuban Boys. There he met the 18-year-old Rose Marie Pehrson (August 28, 1928), a cavalry officer's daughter. They got married the same year and he settled in Sweden. He described it as the most important moment of his life: "It was like being hit by lightning," he said. "If you meet a woman and you want to change your life you have to choose between love and art." They remained together until her death in 2012. Valdés was in the middle of the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, which he had suffered for several years, when he died in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 22, 2013, aged 94.


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Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears) is a collaborative effort between the octogenarian Cuban piano master Bebo Valdés and the reigning Spanish flamenco cantador, Diego El Cigala. Recorded for Fernando Trueba and Nat Chediak's Calle 54 label, the sessions took place in Madrid between September and December 2002. Maestro Valdés (born in 1918), the father of the jazz pianist Chucho, has a long history as an innovator in Cuban music. He recorded the first Afro-Cuban jazz session in 1952, and was a tutor to the great bandleader Beny Moré, writing early charts for him. Valdés is also a world-class arranger. Diego El Cigala was born in 1960, and has become the undisputed king of Spain's flamenco singers. This recording features nine tracks that meld together cooking son, jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and flamenco rhythms, in tunes by composers such as Lolita de la Colina, Virgilio and Homero Expósito, Ramón Perelló, the grand team of Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, Caetano Veloso (who makes a guest appearance), Maria Teresa Vera, Miguel Matamoros (who composed the title track), and others. Most are Cuban ballads. Guests such as Veloso, Paquito D'Rivera, Pancho Terry, Tata Güines, and El Niño Josele fall by on different tracks. And while the tunes are top-shelf and the guests make this a very special and historic occasion, it is the unusual dynamic and the integrity with which it is employed that makes this set so unique. Valdés' style is an elegant one; his rhythmic left hand accents rhythms and shifts them effortlessly, adding street and nuance here, space and tension there. Always his notes are sure, precise, and solid. El Cigala's voice is a true cantador's; he wavers, lilts, growls, and gutturally moans; he slips between rhythms and melodies, underscoring first one and then another, using the rhythms to sing counterpoint to the piano's stridency and sheer graceful approach in the ballads, shouting assent and further challenges on the uptempo sons. Together, the combination is its own moving poetry, meeting in the middle of a tradition as old as flamenco's "cante jondo" and as integrated as Cuba's. The sacred and profane dine and drink together and no one will say which is which. All nine songs offer differing emphases on lyric and rhythm, all offer variant harmonic concerns, but they all contain the spirit of the "duende." While there isn't a mediocre second on this album and all of the performances are breathtaking, "Lágrimas Negras" and "Corazón Loco" are clear standouts. This is destined to be a classic, and hopefully a gateway to more experiments like this one. The double platinum Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears) won 5 Spanish and 2 Latin Grammys.



 Bebo Valdes y Diego El Cigala - Lagrimas Negras    (flac  205mb)

01 Inolvidable 3:20
02 Veinte Años 4:03
03 Lágrimas Negras 5:31
04 Nieblas Del Riachuelo 3:07
05 Corazón Loco 3:54
06 Se Me Olvidó Que Te Olvidé 3:15
07 Vete De Mí 2:56
08 La Bien Pagá 8:58
09 Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar / Coraçao Vagabundo 4:19

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If you liked their previous work, you have to listen to what they accomplish live. In one word: sensational! This concert has been touched by His Noodly Appendage. All is bliss.

The Academy Award winning Spanish film director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque and Calle 54) arranged for the exiled Cuban pianist Ramon 'Bebo' Valdes and Spanish flamenco singer Diego 'El Cigala' Salazar to collaborate on a cross-cultural recording. The double platinum Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears) won 5 Spanish and 2 Latin Grammys. The recording, with a guest appearance by saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, draws from the music of Cuba, Spain, Central and South America. The director has assembled the musicians once again for Blanco Y Negro: Bebo & Cigala En Vivo (Black & White: Bebo & Cigala Live) a live concert filmed in Mallorca Spain. With 5.1 Dolby Digital sound and English (or French) subtitles, the experience is enhanced and the emotion of the music is given priority.

The 19 tracks include all the music from Lágrimas Negras plus much more. Bebo Valdes, the Sweden-based pianist was the house bandleader in the pre-Castro Tropicana Nightclub. His playing carries with it the Havana mambo mixed with Gershwin's New York. At 85 years young he might just be the Cuban Hank Jones. The Music of the Americas that Valdes expresses through his piano doesn't seem, on paper, to match with the guitar-led music of Cigala's flamenco. Even the 50 years difference in age stands in their way! But beauty is in the new flavors and textures that are created when these cultures collide. Cigala, whose ancient Roma gypsy flamenco art, resembles a young Tom Waits as a storyteller. You cannot be anything but stirred by his gritty emotional singing.



Bebo Valdes & Diego El Cigala - Blanco y Negro Live    (flac  410mb)

01 Hubo Un Lugar: Cuba Linda 8:10
02 Inolvidable 3:08
03 Se Me Olvidó Que Te Olvidé 3:48
04 Veinte Años 3:20
05 La Fuente De Bebo 2:28
06 Niebla Del Riachuelo 3:11
07 Corazón Loco 2:48
08 Lágrimas Negras 5:20
09 La Caridad 1:25
10 Americana 7:36
11 Amar Y Vivir 3:21
12 Vete De Mí 2:56
13 La Bien Pagá 5:53
14 Suspiros De España 2:51
15 Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar 4:01
16 Tu Sonrisa 0:56
17 Obsesión 4:40
18 En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor-De La Mano Del Viento 4:06

Bebo Valdes & Diego El Cigala - Blanco y Negro Live  (ogg    184mb)

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Juntos Para Siempre ("Together Forever") is the title of a studio album released by father and son (both born on the 9th of October) Bebo and Chucho Valdés on November 11, 2008. Bebo Valdés along with his son Chucho, play on their pianos classics songs of Latin American music, "Tres Palabras", "Son de la Loma", "Sabor a Mí", "Lágrimas Negras" and "La Gloria eres Tú", along with some original songs.The album was recorded after the performers were separated for several years. Bebo Valdes stated that he thought that he would never see his son again, but when finally they had the opportunity to be together and record it; it was a "reward for all those years of uncertainty." Bebo Valdés and Chucho Valdés received the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010; they also won the Latin Grammy Award on the same field.



 Bebo Valdes y Chucho Valdes - Juntos Para Siempre ("Together Forever")    (flac  204mb)

01 Preludio Para Bebo 5:04
02 Descarga Valdés 4:49
03 Tres Palabras 4:43
04 Rareza Del Siglo 4:11
05 Tea For Two 5:04
06 Son De La Loma 3:29
07 La Gloria Eres Tú 3:46
08 A Chucho 4:53
09 Sabor A Mi 5:29
10 Perdido 3:12
11 Lágrimas Negras 3:44
12 La Conga Del Dentista 3:21

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The Oscar-nominated animated film Chico & Rita is, on the surface, a standard boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, will-boy-get-girl-back? movie. It starts in the late ’40s, and tells the love story between a pianist and a singer, following them through their early struggles, success, heartbreak and final triumph, from their native Havana, Cuba, to New York, Las Vegas and back.

But the real focus of Chico & Rita-the creation of a Spanish team comprising Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba, illustrator Javier Mariscal and director Tono Errando-is the music. “The love story is [a plot device], a pretext to tell the history of the music of those days-the rise of bebop, the rise of Afro-Cuban jazz,”
"I think Chico is not Bebo," he says. "Chico is a tribute to all the Cuban musicians of that era. You can find things from Bebo, you can find things from Ruben Gonzalez, or this generation of guys, some of them stayed in Cuba, some of them left. Chico is both of these things: he goes to America, but then in the end he has to go back to Cuba, so he participates in both these kind of lives. But if Bebo had not been such an important part of my life all these years, then maybe this movie would not exist. I wrote parts of the script with Bebo’s music in my head. He has been a strong inspiration, and then our score is by him, and we’re going to dedicate the movie to him. So the spirit of Bebo is all over Chico & Rita." Towards the end of the film, Chico gets a new lease of life when flamenco singer Estrella Morente arrives in Havana, looking to discover authentic original talent for a musical collaboration. Trueba was able to persuade the real-life flamenco star, who has been performing since the age of seven, to participate in the film. He says, "I’ve loved Estrella since she was very young. She has one foot in the 19th century and one in the 21st century; she doesn’t belong to the 20th century. She’s so profound and so ancestral and at the same time so modern. It was beautiful to have her as a real character and a real person in the film."

After completing the film, and before the official premiere, Trueba traveled to Málaga, in the south of Spain where Valdés lived, and rented a movie theater to show it to the maestro and to flamenco singer Estrella Morente, who stars as herself in the movie and, as it turns out, also lives in that city. “Bebo came with Rosemarie [his wife, who has since passed too] and Estrella with her husband, Javier. And the four watched in the empty theater and at the end, they were all crying. I had never seen Bebo cry. And when he sees me, he kisses my hand and hugs me and says, ‘When I’m gone, the people will still watch this movie and will hear my music.’ And that’s when I understood that for Bebo, as a musician, that was the greatest gift of this movie. For me, that was a moment of pure happiness that I’ll never forget.



Fernando Trueba - Chico & Rita    (avi  1400mb)


Cuban jazz legend Bebo Valdés is in charge of this wonderful soundtrack for Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal's animated film about the romance between a singer and a pianist, set in La Havana and New York of the '40s and '50s. In addition to Valdés, the main performers include Freddy Cole, Jimmy Heath, Idania Valdés, Germán Velasco, and Amadito Valdés, in a collection of both originals and jazz and bolero standards arranged by Michael Philip Mossman. Estrella Morente sings the main title song, "Lily."



Bebo Valdes - Chico & Rita (OST)    (flac  380mb)

01 Cachao creador del mambo
02 Blues for André
03 Besame mucho
04 Con un poco de coco
05 Ebony concerto
06 Persecucion
07 Celia
08 Paran pan pan
09 Sabor a mi
10 Ay que mala é
11 Sabor a mi
12 A Mayra. Desamor and coda
13 A Mayra. Descarga
14 A Mayra. Sad Walk
15 Chico's dream
16 Ecuacion
17 Tin tin deo
18 Chano Pozo
19 Nocturno en batanga
20 Nocturno en batanga
21 Love for sale
22 Love for sale-Reprise
23 Lily
24 Stardust
25 A Mayra
26 Vanguard Strings
27 Mambo herd
28 Deportacion
29 Lily
30 La bella cubana

Bebo Valdes - Chico & Rita (OST)    (ogg  157mb)

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