Chucho Valdés – review

The Floridita, LondonChucho Valdés, 70 years old and 6ft5in, strides on to the stage wearing a suit and a Kangol beret, looking like a retired Black Panther. He proceeds to play the piano like a cross between the Incredible Hulk and Felix the Cat, thumping out block chords, rattling out octaves and playing complicated flourishes with a dexterity that's matched by his six-piece Afro-Jazz Messengers (trumpet, tenor sax, bass and three percussionists).Unlike many Cuban jazz heavyweights, including...

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