Orlando Valle

Trip Into Friendship is the project of three musician friends celebrating their long friendship with music. Orlando "Maraca" Valle in Havana, Orlando Poleo in Caracas and Gerard Naulet in Paris have been friends for 20 years. This recording under Orlando "Maraca" Valle's brilliant artistic direction and Orlando Poleo's exceptional rhythmic pulse, with a supporting wink from Gérard Naulet for Latin-jazz, help traditional melodies of Cuba music meet the original compositions of the three musician friends. The "trip" is a tribute to Latin-American music.

Orlando Silveira de Oliveira Silva (Rincão, May 27, 1925 — Rio de Janeiro, December 22, 1993), more known as Orlando Silveira, was a Brazilian accordionist, maestro, composer and arranjador.

Cubanismo! is a rollicking, entertaining collection of Cuban-inspired jazz recorded with pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and a host of Havana musicians. Jesús Alemañy sounds vigorous throughout the album, spurring his team of supporting musicians to great performances. It's an album that emphasizes the Latin rhythms of Latin jazz, not the jazz and it is all the stronger for it…