Article: Cuban on the keys. (jazz pianist Chucho Valdes)

I can't believe i'm here," the sweating guest of honor, fresh from Havana, said as he came off the bandstand. And the 100-odd people, mostly musicians, in Willie's Bar and Steak House in the Bronx could hardly believe it either. The last time the jazz piano legend Jesus (Chucho) Valdes was in New York, he played Carnegie Hall. His 15-piece band, Irakere ("the forest" in Yoruba), had just won a Grarnmy--and Jimmy Carter was president. Now, 16 years later, here he was jamming in a barrio bar under an elevated stretch of the subway. And that was just the first in a two-week string of informal reunions in the city that's home to most of his musical peers. It was, in effect, a ...

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