Valdes, Bebo / Bebo
Album: Bebo   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Valdes, Bebo   Added:Mar 2007
Label:Calle54 Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-04-08 Pull Date: 2007-06-10 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Jun 10 May 6 Apr 29 Apr 22 Apr 15
Airplays: 1 1 1 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 15, 2015: 9-15-2015
Danza No. 2, Danza No. 1, La Caridad
4. May 02, 2007: Sign My Yearbook!
Danza Lucumi
2. Apr 01, 2015: 4-1-2015
Danza No. 2, Danza No. 1, La Caridad, Tu Sonrisa
5. Apr 27, 2007: Memory Select
Danza Lucumi
3. Jun 08, 2007: Memory Select
Danza No. 1
6. Apr 20, 2007: Memory Select
Tu Sonrisa

Album Review
Chauncy Sunderland
Reviewed 2007-04-01
Solo Cuban piano. Classical, stately. Clearly carribean, but also in same mood as solo stride piano....kind of. You're not going to hear a younger person play like this. Compositions are from ~1812-present. Check the liner notes for details. Really clean playing. Deceptively austere, and nicely avoids the pedal. FCC clean.
Picks 1,2,3,4,8,10

**1-1:31) Great start. Turn-of-the-(last)-century parlor/classical feel. Abrupt trite end.
**2-0:58) Mid/fast. Spidery runs up and down the keyboard. Abrupt trite end.
**3-3:03) Slower, lazy triplety feel. Quiet, hymnal ending.
*4-2:29) Snaky mid dance. Light arpeggio ending.
5-4:40) Very slow, sad, maudlin. Jazz voicings. High, soft, plinked chord ending.
6-4:07) Slow lugubrious bass line. Abrupt ending.
7-3:35) Sad, slightly jazzy and accompanies my dinner in a fine 1940's establishment. soft, high, plinky ending.
*8-3:17) Very weepy and romantic. Occasional block hands and runs.
9-5:26) Firm, upbeat. Surprise ending.
*10-1:17) Cheerful. Sounds fun to play.
11-2:37) Broadly rolls along in a "Peanuts" kind of way.
12-3:52) Prominent syncopated bassline, sounds stereotypical. Jazz arpeggio end.
13-3:38) Mid. Very jazzy cadenza to end.
14-3:28) Dramatic and romantic.
15-4:31) Brisk beginning, settles into a moving triplety cuban feel.
16-2:15) Fast, pedaled arpeggios, parlor/Rachmaninoff style. Kinda cheesy Liberace, but who cares.
17-6:54) Blues and jazz inflected. Almost a story. Ends with abrupt slide down the keyboard.

Track Listing
1. La Caridad   10. Al Fin Te Vi
2. Tu Sonrisa   11. Danza Lucumi
3. Danza No. 1   12. La Comparsa
4. Danza No. 2   13. Echale Sasita
5. La Bayamesa   14. Marta
6. La Bella Cubana   15. Consuelate
7. Tu   16. Oleaje
8. La Flor Del Yumuri   17. Cuba Linda
9. Tres Lindas Cubanas   .