Product Details
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- SKU: IORCD77131-2
- Format: CD
- UPC: 798747713122
- Street Date: 07/06/18
- PreBook Date: 06/01/18
- Label: In And Out Records »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 47 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2015
- Box Lot: 40
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
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Ramon Valle & Orlando Maraca Valle - The Art Of Two
A recording that reveals the artistic maturity of these two masters of Jazz and Cuban music and world class musicians.
- List Price: $16.99
- Your Price: $16.99
- In Stock: 67
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Featuring Ramón Valle (piano) Orlando ''Maraca'' Valle (flute). At a time when Cuban music - the great art of the island involves a considerable amount of dissonance, when the timba, the Cuban version of salsa, campaigns to recapture those spheres of recognition and attention, the requéton (damned, diluted but still exceptionally powerful) sustains itself and is one of the fields in which some of Cuba's most creative musicians finally made it and opened up the international market - an achievement which was formerly out of reach, the two cousins, Ramón and Orlando ''Maraca'' Valle go aboard their small, homely but comfortably equipped boat to go against the tide, or to follow the stream which was theirs from the beginning.
It is what makes ''The Art of Two'' an uncommon, though quite predictable, CD. Uncommon, because it simply aspires to what it is, regardless of further ambitions: great music, wellperformed and without showing off or modifying it to meet the regional conditions of the market. Predictable, because, in accordance with the accomplishments and careers of both pianist Ramón Valle and flautist Orlando Valle (first cousins, in case you didn't know) nothing less than a musical lusciousness was to be expected.
This is the reason why ''The Art of Two'' is not only a testimony which discloses the artistic maturity of the two masters of jazz and Cuban music, but which is also a clear indication of how premium jazz may arise, while by-passing any stereotypes and simplifications and starting from the base of an essential and generally accepted Cubania, which evolves into a universal and contemporary lushness of sound.
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