Live at the Village Vanguard (Chucho Valdés album)

Live at the Village Vanguard is an album by Chucho Valdés

Chucho Valdés

Chucho Valdés is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists...

, released through Blue Note Records in 2000. In 2001, the album won Valdés the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

for Best Latin Jazz Album

Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album

The Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the Latin jazz music genre...

Track listing

"Anabis" (Valdés) – 9:44
"Son XXI (Para Pia)" (Ubieta) – 5:27
"Punto Cubano" (Valdés) – 6:18
"My Funny Valentine
My Funny Valentine
"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green...

" (Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...

, Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...

) – 5:37
"To Bud Powell" (Valdés) – 10:45
"Drume Negrita" (Grenet) – 5:31
"Como Traigo la Yuca" (Rodriquez) – 6:36
"Ponle la Clave" (Valdés) – 9:36
"Encore-Lorraine's Habanera" (Valdés) – 3:49

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