CD: I Missed You Too!
Chucho Valdes & Paquito D'Rivera
release date: 22 Jul 2022
In 1962, two of the most influential and talented instrumentalists Cuba has ever produced came together. Saxophonist / clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera was invited to hear pianist Chucho Valdés at a local club in his neighborhood of Marianao in southern Havana. The two soon became a musical partnership that helped shape jazz in Cuba. Their paths would part in 1980, when D'Rivera left Cuba.
Sixty years after they first met, the two have finally reunited to make a monumental new recording. I Missed You Too! is the first recording by D'Rivera and Valdés since they were both members of Cuba's most influential jazz / fusion ensemble Irakere.
Sixty years after they first met, the two have finally reunited to make a monumental new recording. I Missed You Too! is the first recording by D'Rivera and Valdés since they were both members of Cuba's most influential jazz / fusion ensemble Irakere.