Chuchito Valdés with special guest Frank Parker
Fri, Sep 05
|Jazz UpFront
🎹 Grammy Award winner Chuchito Valdés returns with his band and special guest Frank Parker for an unforgettable night of Latin jazz and pure energy. 💲 Tickets: $20 in advance | $25 at the door
Time & Location
Sep 05, 2025, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Jazz UpFront, 107 W Front St, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
About the event
Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. In a career spanning more than 60 years, both as a solo artist and bandleader, Mr. Valdés has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban music tradition, jazz, classical music, rock, and more, into a deeply personal style.
Winner of seven GRAMMY® and five Latin GRAMMY® Awards, Mr. Valdés, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Science last year and was also inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Mr. Valdés celebrated his 80th birthday on October 9, 2021, completing La Creación (The Creation), a three-movement suite for a small ensemble, voices, and a big band. The piece, the most ambitious work of his career, tells the history of Creation according to the Regla de Ocha, the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santería.
The Creation was a commission of the Adrianne Arsht Center for the…