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Chucho Valdés
Cuban pianist and composer
Quivicán, Cuba • b. 1941-10-09
Chucho Valdés is credited on 612 releases across 166 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
612
Pressings credited
166
Albums
7
Decades active
34
In collections
Biography
Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho (born October 9, 1941), is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Both his father, Bebo Valdés, and his son, Chuchito, are pianists as well. As a solo artist, he has won seven Grammy Awards and four Latin Grammy Awards.
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Credited work
612 releases · 166 albums · active 1960–2025
- Performance · 1,249
- Other credits · 235
- Production · 21
- Mastering · 1
Studios: Estudios EGREM · Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg · Victor Studio · Montreux Jazz Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Irakere
1978
Chávez Ravine
2005
2
1980
Buenos Hermanos
2003
Live At The Village Vanguard
2000
Latin Jazz
2007
New Conceptions
2003
Fantásia Cubana - Variations On Classical Themes
2002
Solo (Live In New York)
2001
As Long As You're Living Yours: The Music Of Keith Jarrett
2000
Briyumba Palo Congo (Religion Of The Congo)
1999
Latin Jazz (Latino Heat Meets New York Cool)
1995
Live At Keystone Korner
1983
El Coco
1982
Turi
1981
Chekeré Son
1979
Chucho Valdés
1970
Bailando Así
El Alimento
2021
Bebo Rides Again
1995
Frequent collaborators
- Irakere
- Various
- Grupo Irakere
- Paquito D'Rivera
- Arturo Sandoval
- Alex Cuba Band
- Omara Portuondo
- Orquesta Cubana De Música Moderna
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