# Arturo O’Farrill & Chucho Valdés – Familia Tribute To Bebo + Chico 2017:  Video

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- Published: 2017-09-20T01:12:15+01:00
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**Pianists Arturo O’Farrill and Chucho Valdés celebrate their rich musical family
legacies on ambitious, gloriously realized Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico. Although
they grew up on separate shores, O’Farrill in New York (via Mexico) and Valdés in
Cuba, they both came of age in musical households as the sons of legendary Cuban
bandleaders Chico O’Farrill and Bebo Valdés. **

Along with icons like Chano Pozo, Machito, and Dizzy Gillespie, the elder O’Farrill
and Valdés were giants of Afro-Cuban music. Similarly, just as their fathers helped
further the dissemination and creative development of Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz,
Arturo and Chucho are innovators in their own rights, with decades of experience
playing both traditional Cuban music and ultra-modern jazz.

Impressively, they bring all that history to bear on Familia, a two-disc collection
featuring songs composed by their fathers, as well as new compositions inspired 
by their lives growing up in such deeply artistic families. Joining them here are
their equally talented children, including trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, drummer Zack
O’Farrill, pianist Leyanis Valdés, and drummer Jessie Valdés. Also on board are 
the members of Arturo O’Farrill’s own Grammy Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.

Disc one primarily features the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and finds O’Farrill and
Valdés taking a more traditional, if still dazzling approach on cuts like the merengue-
infused “BeboChicoChuchoTuro” and a lushly orchestrated reading of Bebo Valdés’ “
Ecuacion.” Also compelling are the pianist’s solo turns on Chico O’Farrill’s “Pianitis”
and O’Farrill’s homage to his parents, “Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters,” which
features several sparkling cadenzas from pianist Leyanis Valdés.

Disc two showcases the smaller, post-bop-leaning Third Generations Ensemble, in 
which they explore the more progressive edges of Afro-Cuban jazz. Here, trumpeter(
and third place finisher at the 2014 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition) Adam O’Farrill
shines, revealing his knack for harmonically adventurous improvisation à la Woody
Shaw on the kinetic and fractured “Run and Jump.” Similarly, the trumpeter breathes
new life into Chico O’Farrill’s “Pura Emocion” framed by his father’s taut, angular
arrangement. Elsewhere, Zack O’Farrill contributes the expansive “Gonki Gonki” (
his mother’s way of describing the sound of rhythmic piano montunos) and Chucho 
offers the lushly virtuosic solo track “Para Chico.”

The sheer amount of virtuosity on display on Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico might
well be overwhelming if the music itself weren’t so warmly and beautifully rendered.

Disc 1 (54:49):
 01. BeboChico (8:56) 02. Three Revolutions (7:52) 03. Ecuación (
9:34) 04. Tema de Bebo (11:59) 05. Pianitis (6:10) 06. Father, Mothers, Sons, Daughters(
10:18)

Disc 2 (39:29):
 01. Run And Jump (7:21) 02. Recuerdo (7:41) 03. Gonki Gonki (5:
45) 04. Pura Emoción (3:50) 05. Para Chico (2:32) 06. Con Poco Coco (8:07) 07. Raja
Ram (4:13)

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