Valdes, Chucho / New Conceptions
Album: New Conceptions   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Valdes, Chucho   Added:Dec 2003
Label:Blue Note  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-12-08 Pull Date: 2004-02-09 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Feb 1 Jan 18 Dec 21 Dec 14
Airplays: 2 2 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 25, 2006: In Pluto We Trust
Solar
4. Jan 30, 2004: No Cover, No Minimum
You Don't Know What Love Is
2. Dec 03, 2004: No Cover, No Minimum - Favorites of 2004, Part 1
Los Guiros
5. Jan 16, 2004: Memory Select
Solar
3. Jan 30, 2004: Memory Select
La Comparasa
6. Jan 16, 2004: No Cover, No Minimum
Los Guiros

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-12-14
Mainstream piano jazz with a Latin feel. Valdes is an adept soloist who infuses a playful personality into the music while also really ripping it up.

1- Midtempo Latin chugger. Gets into some manic soloing.
2- Quasi-sinister vamp; goes through romantic phases and wild phases
3- Fun stuff: Rolling, mid/fast gentle. With some Spanish monologue and a Brubeck quote
4- Soft piano solo
5- Fast and relaxed. Includes some flashy unaccompanied piano
6- Fast tangly theme into slower blues/Latin walk
7- Ellingtonian swing, Latin style. Includes a mad percussion break.


Track Listing
1. La Comparasa   4. Nanu
2. You Don't Know What Love Is   5. Solar
3. Los Guiros   6. Sin Clave Pero Con Swing
  7. Homenaje a Ellington