Chucho Valdés
Tue, 15 Sep, 7:00 PM PDT
Doors open
5:00 PM PDT
Blue Note Los Angeles
6372 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Description
$20 Minimum Per Person
Full Bar & Dinner Menu
NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.
All seating is first come, first served.
Bar Area seating is limited and first come first served. When all available seats are occupied, the remaining bar area is standing room only.
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Event Information
Age Limit
All Ages
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Afro-Cuban Jazz
Chucho Valdes
Chucho Valdes
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Chucho Valdés, one of the most influential figures in modern Afro-Cuban jazz, was named a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. As noted in the NEA announcement, the distinction celebrates “a select number of living legends who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz.”
The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the highest honor the United States bestows on jazz artists.
The recognition crowns a 60-year career that includes seven GRAMMY®, six Latin GRAMMY® Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, and being inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Meanwhile, Mr. Valdés, 83, keeps creating, still curious and restless.
In September 2024, he presented yet another brilliant ensemble, the Royal Quartet, featuring three generations of top Cuban musicians, including Horacio “El Negro” Hernández on drums; José A. Gola, bass; and Roberto Jr. Vizcaíno, percussion. The release of Cuba & Beyond (Innercat Music Group), which earned a Grammy nomination, marked the 60-year anniversary of Mr. Valdés’s recording debut, Jazz Nocturno (Areito, 1964).
Cuba & Beyond also served as a bookend for a year in which Valdés celebrated one of his most important achievements with Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50, a tribute to Irakere, the Cuban band he co-founded and led for more than three decades. With its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, Cuban popular styles, jazz, rock, and classical music, Irakere opened new paths for Latin jazz.