Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

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Overview

Pianists Arturo O'Farrill and Chucho Valdes celebrate their rich musical family legacies on 2017's ambitious, gloriously realized Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico. Although they grew up on separate shores, O'Farrill in New York (via Mexico) and Valdes in Cuba, they both came of age in musical households as the sons of legendary Cuban bandleaders Chico O'Farrill and Bebo Valdes. Along with icons like Chano Pozo, Machito, and Dizzy Gillespie, the elder O'Farrill and Valdes were giants of Afro-Cuban music. Similarly, just as their fathers helped further the dissemination and creative development of Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz, Arturo and Chucho are innovators in their own rights, with decades of experience playing both traditional Cuban music and ultra-modern jazz. Impressively, they bring all that history to bear on Familia, a two-disc collection featuring songs composed by their fathers, as well as new compositions inspired by their lives growing up in such deeply artistic families. Joining them here are their equally talented children, including trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, drummer Zack O'Farrill, pianist Leyanis Valdes, and drummer Jessie Valdes. Also on board are the members of Arturo O'Farrill's own Grammy Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Disc one primarily features the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and finds O'Farrill and Valdes taking a more traditional, if still dazzling approach on cuts like the merengue-infused "BeboChicoChuchoTuro" and a lushly orchestrated reading of Bebo Valdes' "Ecuacion." Also compelling are the pianist's solo turns on Chico O'Farrill's "Pianitis" and O'Farrill's homage to his parents, "Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters," which features several sparkling cadenzas from pianist Leyanis Valdes. Disc two showcases the smaller, post-bop-leaning Third Generations Ensemble, in which they explore the more progressive edges of Afro-Cuban jazz. Here, trumpeter (and third place finisher at the 2014 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition) Adam O'Farrill shines, revealing his knack for harmonically adventurous improvisation a la Woody Shaw on the kinetic and fractured "Run and Jump." Similarly, the trumpeter breathes new life into Chico O'Farrill's "Pura Emocion" framed by his father's taut, angular arrangement. Elsewhere, Zack O'Farrill contributes the expansive "Gonki Gonki" (his mother's way of describing the sound of rhythmic piano montunos) and Chucho offers the lushly virtuosic solo track "Para Chico." The sheer amount of virtuosity on display on Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico might well be overwhelming if the music itself weren't so warmly and beautifully rendered. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date: 09/15/2017
Label: Motéma Music
UPC: 0181212002294
Rank: 150100

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Bebochicochuchoturo
  2. Three Revolutions
  3. Ecuati¿¿n
  4. Tema de Bebo
  5. Pianitis
  6. Father, Mothers, Sons, Daughters

Disc 2

  1. Run and Jump
  2. Recuerdo
  3. Gonki Gonki
  4. Pura Emocion
  5. Para Chico
  6. Con Poco Coco
  7. Raja Ram

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Arturo O'Farrill   Primary Artist,Piano,Soloist,Musical Director
Chucho Valdes   Primary Artist,Piano,Soloist
Third Generations Ensemble   Featured Artist
Ernesto Vega   Soloist,Clarinet
Christopher Sanchez   Percussion,Guest Artist
Bam Bam Rodriguez   Bass
Jesus Ricardo Anduz   Soloist,Trumpet
Adam O' Farrill   Soloist,Trumpet
Jessie Valdes   Soloist
Leyanis Valdes   Piano,Soloist
Larry Bustamante   Sax (Baritone),Clarinet (Bass)
Robert Porcelli   Flute,Sax (Alto)
Kali Rodriguez-Pena   Soloist,Trumpet
Seneca Black   Soloist,Trumpet
Jim Seeley   Soloist,Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Chad Lefkowitz-Brown   Soloist,Clarinet,Sax (Tenor),Flute
Zack O'Farrill   Soloist
Vince Cherico   Soloist
Jonathan Powell   Trumpet
Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra   Featured Artist
Ivan Renta   Soloist,Sax (Tenor)
Bryan Davis   Trumpet
Carlos Maldonado   Bongos,Congas,Percussion
Anoushka Shankar   Sitar,Soloist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Rafi Malkiel   Trombone,Euphonium
Gregg August   Bass
Earl McIntyre   Tuba,Trombone (Bass)
Tony Rosa   Congas,Percussion
David DeJesus   Flute,Soloist,Sax (Alto)
Frank Cohen   Trombone
Tokunori Kajiwara   Soloist,Trombone

Technical Credits

Kabir Sehgal   Liner Notes,Mixing Consultant,Executive Producer,Arranger,Composer,Producer
Matt Litwin   Senior Producer
Julian Hepple   Engineer
Jared O'Connell   Associate Producer
Andrew Whitehouse   Assistant Producer
Aditya Srinath   Associate Producer
David Levanson   Senior Producer
Shayne Ebudo   Assistant Producer
Saad Khan   Senior Producer
Caitlin Levanson   Senior Producer
Teresa Barger   Senior Producer
Stephen Dembitzer   Senior Producer
Lynne Fowler   Assistant Producer
Nicolas Rodriguez-Brizuela   Associate Producer
Travis Brown   Senior Producer
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance   Senior Producer
Kenya Autie   Assistant Producer
Adam O' Farrill   Arranger,Composer
Jessie Valdes   Arranger,Composer
Andrea Jovine   Assistant Producer
Asanka Pathiraja   Assistant Producer
Doron Weber   Associate Producer
Greer Baxter   Assistant Producer
Innocent Tswamuno   Assistant Producer
Isabella Johnson   Assistant Producer
Jamie Li   Assistant Producer
Martha McGeary Snider   Associate Producer
Scott Silers   Assistant Producer
Jordy Freed   Publicity
Eric Taller   Technical Producer
Andy Mason   Copyist
Chico O'Farrill   Composer
James Allen   Senior Producer
Zack O'Farrill   Arranger,Composer
Bebo Valdes   Arranger,Composer
Chucho Valdes   Arranger,Composer
Rafa Sardina   Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Oscar Autie   Mastering Engineer
Alan Silverman   Mastering Engineer
Todd Bashore   Copyist
Arturo O'Farrill   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Liner Notes,Mixing Consultant
David Claassen   Assistant Producer
Hilario Duran   Arranger
Ted Howe   Composer
Peter Karl   Engineer
Robin Tomchin   Project Manager
Rebecca Meek   Package Design
Mavis Pan   Copyist
David Garten   Photography
Yasunari Rowan   Photography,Videography
Dennis Sy   Associate Producer
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