Tag Archives: Bebo Valdés

Irving Areas was among the last of his generation of active music artists; been trained in the primary many years of Tin Skillet Alley and vintage American well-known music before Globe Battle II, he could possibly be found still taking part in piano frequently in NY in the beginning of …

Appreciated for his highly commercial method of pop music, Xavier Cugat (delivered Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat Mingall de Cru y Deulofeo) produced a much greater mark among the pioneers of Latin American dance music. During his eight-decade-long profession, Cugat helped to popularize the tango, the cha-cha, the mambo, as …

Johnny Richards was one of the most progressive-minded arrangers from the 1950s and ’60s, turning away big, heavily orchestrated scores using a sometimes unabashed usage of dissonance and an excellent experience for Latin rhythms. His music continues to be called “provocatively multi-colored,” though regarding his notoriously portentous “Prologue” for the …

Even though trombone often gets short shrift behind vocals, flute as well as saxophone in Cuban music, Generoso “El Tojo” Jiménez is noteworthy among the best trombone players in Cuban history. He was created in the tiny city in Cruces, in what’s right now the province of Cienfuegos, on July …

Born in Oct 1918 in Quivican, Cuba, Bebo Valdés played piano from an early on age group and was very dynamic being a performer, composer, arranger, and music director in various Havana nightclubs through the entire ‘40s and in to the 50s. Of these years, he was also playing and …