Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés offered a concert worthy of his legendary status and, surely, of what the hundreds of fans who packed the Jameos del Agua Auditorium last Saturday expected.
The icon of Latin music offered a show full of good music and moments of nostalgia in what was the premiere of the world tour he is doing in tribute to Irakere 50, the mythical Cuban band that marked a before and after in Latin jazz for its masterful fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music with Cuban popular music, jazz, rock and classical music.
The Cuban found an Auditorium eager to enjoy, and that was gaining temperature as the successes of an artist who has become a legend of music thanks to nights like the one lived last Saturday.
Valdés won the audience over with his simplicity, his musical knowledge and, above all, his rhythms, which made a stand that put him in serious trouble to leave the stage... after two hours of brilliant performance.
A large part of the public closed an unforgettable night enjoying the usual cocktail that the Tourist Centers offer the possibility of booking after an event.
The performance of the winner of seven Grammy Awards, six Latin Grammy Awards and the Latin Recording Academy's Award for Musical Excellence at the Jameos del Agua Auditorium is framed in a collaboration of the Tourist Centers and the organization of the Canarias Jazz & Más Músicas Creativas Festival.