HOMENAJE A BEBO Cucurucho Valdés & Javier Colina

A jazz tribute to Bebo Valdés featuring Cucurucho Valdés on piano and Javier Colina on double bass, alongside Moisés Porro, with popular Cuban tunes and original compositions.

This concert pays tribute to Bebo Valdés and brings together on stage the piano of Cucurucho Valdés and the double bass of Javier Colina, with Moisés Porro as part of the project. Javier Colina is a Spanish jazz composer born in 1960 in Pamplona; his first album, « Pasajes / Passages (Jazz Viene Del Sur) », was released in 2002.

The programme revisits a selection of what Bebo Valdés and Colina recorded together at the Village Vanguard in New York. To that core are added popular Cuban tunes and original compositions, with the music of the island as a common thread running through the whole evening.

The concert takes place at Café Berlín, a venue on the Costanilla de los Ángeles in Madrid that mostly hosts electronic music concerts. It is a format designed to listen to the dialogue between piano and double bass around a repertoire rooted in Cuban music.