Jazz Batá 2, composer, pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés’ first album for Mack Avenue Records, marks a new peak of creativity for the artist, even as it revisits the small-group concept of his 1972 Cuban album Jazz Batá. That album upon release was originally considered experimental at the time, but the trio project – featuring no drum set and two virtuosi who would subsequently be charter members of Irakere: Carlos del Puerto (bass) and Oscar Valdés (batâ: the sacred, hourglass-shaped drums of the Yoruba religion in Cuba) – would now be considered contemporary.
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Chucho Valdés / piano
Yelsy Heredia / double bass
Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé / batás and vocals
Yaroldy Abreu Robles / percussion
Guest Artist:
Regina Carter / violin (“Ochún” and “100 Años de Bebo” only)
Track Listing
- Obatalá
- Son XXI
- Luces
- Ochún
- Chucho's Mood
- 100 Años de Bebo
- El Güije
- The Clown