GRP • Dave Valentin - Awakening [Live from The Record Plant 1985]

Live from The Record Plant 1985

Dave Valentin

Virtuoso flutist Dave Valentin brings his vibrant, innovative style and warmly engaging personality to the stage for this installment of Billy Taylor's Jazz At The Kennedy Center. Though jazz music is fundementally a product of several types of fusion, one of its richest subdivisions is the marriage of jazz and Afro-Latin rhythms known as Latin-Jazz. The Latin-Jazz sound was given wings by the partnership of trumpeter-bandleader Dizzy Gillespie and Cuban hand drummer Chano Pozo in the 1940s, a marriage arranged by bandleaders Machito and his brother-in-law Mario Bauza. Valentin carries on the tradition of these forbearers, while adding his own unique and creative expression.