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85th anniversaryImpossible to mention Chucho Valdés without associating him with Afro-Cuban jazz – and vice versa. Son of Bebo Valdés (pianist and orchestra conductor, pioneer of mambo), Chucho, also a pianist, founded the mythical Irakere in 1973 and persevered for long years playing jazz on an island…