◇ image via WikipediaChucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés is a Classical and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Beny Moré, Concha Buika, Bebo Valdés and Herbie Hancock. Those roots explain a lot about how Chucho Valdés arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mongo Santamaria, Chick Corea, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ray Barretto and Compay Segundo, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Roberta Gambarini, Omara Portuondo, Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and Roy Hargrove, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Chucho Valdés, reaching back through Beny Moré and forward to Roberta Gambarini. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Chucho Valdés connections
Chucho Valdés grew out of Beny Moré, Concha Buika, Bebo Valdés and Herbie Hancock, shares an orbit with Mongo Santamaria, Chick Corea, Ibrahim Ferrer and Ray Barretto, went on to shape Roberta Gambarini, Omara Portuondo, Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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