Chucho Valdes - Border-Free (2013)
Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers - Border-Free (2013)
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Genre: Latin Jazz, Cu-Bop, Afrocubism
Digital Download | FLAC tracks | M3U+MD5 | Digital Booklet PDF | 406MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz, Cu-Bop, Afrocubism
Chucho Valdes, Cuba's most famous jazz musician, has rebalanced the repertoire of his Afro-Cuban Messengers on Border-Free, mixing its American-jazz agenda (the group's name deliberately references both Valdes' roots and the late Art Blakey's classic soul-bop Jazz Messengers group) with more extended Latin-American input, and some Native American and Andalusian connections, too. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, guesting on three tracks, is warmly romantic on tenor on the loping Tabu, agile and fluent on the Cuban dance-shuffle Bebo, and mercurial on a soprano-sax break full of north African microtonalisms on the hurtling, horn-hooting finale, Abdel.Track List
01. Congadanza 9:13
02. Caridad Amaro 6:28
03. Tabu 9:50
04. Bebo 7:49
05. Afro-Comanche 11:55
06. Pilar 10:08
07. Santa Cruz 6:24
08. Abdel 9:04
musicians
Chucho Valdes - piano
Reinaldo Melian Alvarez - trumpet
Dreiser Durruthy Bombale - batas, lead vocals
Rodney Barreto Illarza - drums, vocals
Angel Gaston Joya Perellada - double bass, vocals
Yarodly Abreu Robles - percussion, vocals
Branford Marsalis - tenor sax on tracks 3, 4 ; soprano sax on track 8
Produced by Chucho Valdes
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Analyzed: Chucho Valdes / Border-Free
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.12 dB -11.55 dB 9:09 01-Congadanza
DR9 -0.19 dB -12.63 dB 6:27 02-Caridad Amaro
DR10 -0.11 dB -11.79 dB 9:47 03-Tabu
DR10 -0.15 dB -12.09 dB 7:47 04-Bebo
DR10 -0.04 dB -13.46 dB 11:55 05-Afro-Comanche
DR11 -0.19 dB -14.60 dB 10:03 06-Pilar
DR8 0.00 dB -9.21 dB 6:23 07-Santa Cruz
DR10 -0.18 dB -13.49 dB 9:06 08-Abdel
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Number of tracks: 8
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 772 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Chucho Valdes - Border-Free (2013)
Chucho Valdes - Border-Free (2013)
