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• 05 / 22 / 2010

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Mexico, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Years pass and Chucho Valdes continues to amaze with his innovative imagination in music, as demonstrated in the concert he just offered in Mexico's National Auditorium Lunario.

  Latin jazz lovers of different ages, not just Mexicans, filled the hall to enjoy the piano interpretations of the Cuban master and his accompanying new band, The Afro Cuban Messengers.

The founder of Cuba's Modern Music Orchestra (1967) and later of the band Irakere (1973), returned to Mexico after four years of absence, encouraged by the recent launch of his new album "Together Forever."

In the middle of the concert, the band, that has taken his art for more than 50 countries, raised the climax of the show with the amazing performance of percussionist Roberto Vizcaino and his talented son of the same name, still a teenager.

Each member of The Afro Cuban Messengers, also accompanied by the acclaimed singer Mayra Caridad Valdes, offered his/her solo on each instrument, with arrangements full of complexity and renewed energy, from this source of creativity characteristic of Cuban music.

Thus, people enjoyed first class performances of drummer Juan Carlos Rojas; Yaroldy Abreu, on percussion, saxophonist Carlos Miyares, Trumpeter Reinaldo "Molote" Melian and bassist Lazaro Rivero.

At 68, Chucho Valdes' hands on the keyboard have the same dexterity and rhythmic energy of the moment of his first success in Jamboree of Warsaw, International Jazz Festival in 1970, as if 40 years were nothing.

Source: PL