Irakere News

Today, we say "Hola!" to the Cuban-born pianist Chucho ValdA©s , who's bringing his band the Afro-Cuban Messengers to St.

"Cuba has pound for pound a lot of great musicians," John Mark "Luckily as the decades have gone on and regulations between the United States have relaxed, we've been able to listen to different Cuban musicians," Tickets are still available at $47 for adults, $40 for those 18 and younger, and $20 for University Park students.

Latin jazz performer Chucho Valdes and his Afro-Cuban Messengers will perform at the Quick Center Saturday, Feb.

The Cuban pianist is as virtuosic a storyteller in jazz as Steven Spielberg is in film, and often as manipulative.

Chucho Valdes and the Afro-Cuban Messengers will challenge a Penn State audience to discern between Cuban and African rhythms.

Chucho Valdes and his Afro-Cuban Messengers perfor, Jan. 27-28 at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at UConn.

Chucho Valds returns to NJPAC's Prudential Hall for the first time since 2003 on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 3pm with the Afro-Cuban Messengers, the band with which he recorded his latest Grammy-winning CD.