The comparison between pianists Bebo Valdés and his son Chucho Valdés could be likened to the choice of the Beatles (Bebo) to the Rolling Stones (Chucho). A more likely frame of reference ...

Pianist Bebo Valdes doesn't seem to know the meaning of retirement. At 90 years of age he has a new album out, Juntos Para Siempre (Together Forever). It's a series of duets with his son, Cuban music ...

Bebo Valdés, a pioneering Cuban pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer who was instrumental in wedding traditional Afro-Cuban dance rhythms with the improvisational freedom of American jazz, died ...

Meet three really grand old men from Cuba. Bebo Valdés plays piano, sublimely (he's also father of "Chucho" Valdés, who many - his father included - regard as the greatest Afro-Cuban pianist). Some ...

At the age of 88, Bebo Valdés made his first solo recording - a heartfelt and historically important love song to Cuban piano music dating back to 1892. Although Bebo has recorded frequently, both pre ...

Bebo Valdes, one of the most important figures from Cuba’s golden age of music in the 1940s and 1950s who later won nine Grammy Awards after his career was revived in the 1990s, died March 22 in ...

One of Cuba's best-known pianists and composers, Bebo Valdes, died March 22 at the age of 94 in Sweden where he had lived for more than 40 years, a friend of the family said. "He died this evening in ...

MADRID -- Renowned Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés, a composer and bandleader who recorded with Nat "King" Cole, was musical director at Havana's legendary Tropicana Club and a key participant in the golden ...

Cuban pianist, arranger and composer Bebo Valdés, 94, a multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winner who was one of the last major figures of the golden era of Cuban music, died Friday in Stockholm. The ...

The musician won five Grammys for his Latin jazz recordings and had songs featured in the Oscar-nominated animated film "Chico & Rita." By Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard Bebo Valdes Cuban Pianist - H ...