Four decades ago, Chucho Valdes revolutionized Cuba's musical landscape as leader of the jazz ensemble Irakere, a band whose sound-world and arrangements remain strikingly modern to this day. For forty years, the volcanic energy of the music of Irakere, propelled by dance rhythms and symphonic orchestrations, brought to life a fantasy universe filled with untamed creatures and sounds of mythical drums. Today, at 73, Valdes demonstrates his irrepressible vigor with a re-discovery of original Irakere charts - here entrusted to the young musicians of his new band, the Afro-Cuban Messengers. Not content with reiterating old repertoire, on Tribute to Irakere - Live in Marciac, the master has reinvented and refashioned those charts into wonderful source material for a new generation of musicians. 'Lovely. I particularly like the opening track Juana 1600. Well funky!' Mark Coles, BBC.
Tracklist:
1. Juana 1600 (Live In Marciac)
2. Lorena's tango (Live In Marciac)
3. Congadanza (Live In Marciac)
4. Afro-Comanche (Live In Marciac)
5. Afro-Funk (Live In Marciac)
6. Yansá (Live In Marciac)

DVD:
1. Juana 1600 (Live In Marciac)
2. Tabú (Live In Marciac)
3. Yansá (Live In Marciac)
4. Congadanza (Live In Marciac)
5. Lorena's tango (Live In Marciac)
6. Afro-Comanche (Live In Marciac)
7. Afro-Funk (Live In Marciac)
8. Bacalao con Pan (Live In Marciac)
9. Los caminos (Live In Marciac)
Released 2016.