| Valdes, Bebo / Bebo |
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| Album: | Bebo | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Valdes, Bebo | Added: | Mar 2007 | |
| Label: | Calle54 Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| 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 |
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| Chauncy Sunderland Reviewed 2007-04-01 | ||
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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 |
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| 1. | La Caridad | 9. | Tres Lindas Cubanas | |||
| 2. | Tu Sonrisa | 10. | Al Fin Te Vi | |||
| 3. | Danza No. 1 | 11. | Danza Lucumi | |||
| 4. | Danza No. 2 | 12. | La Comparsa | |||
| 5. | La Bayamesa | 13. | Echale Sasita | |||
| 6. | La Bella Cubana | 14. | Marta | |||
| 7. | Tu | 15. | Consuelate | |||
| 8. | La Flor Del Yumuri | 16. | Oleaje | |||
| 17. | Cuba Linda | |||||