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• +18 · Legendary Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés ignites memories

  Filed Oct 20, 2006 at 7:52 PM · Veteran Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés got a standing ovation at the Jackie Gleason Theater before he even played one note. The mostly Cuban-American crowd had come to hear and pay homage to one of their home country's legends. Sitting in one of the front rows was Miami-based Israel López ''Cachao.'' Next to him sat Generoso Jiménez, trombonist for the legendary bandleader Beny Moré.
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• +46 · A conga god: Daniel Ponce beats his drums with an attitude

  Filed Oct 09, 2006 at 9:36 PM ·
  
  I went to hear him there one night this summer, with the Triff trio. The sprezzatura was there, though with less hauteur. And he still had that same way of making the beats explode both on the drumhead and inside the listener's body. I have heard the masters: Barretto, Santamaría, Virgilio Martí, Giovanni Hidalgo, Francisco Aguabella, Patato Valdez, Candido -- and Tata Güines on record and Changuito on video. Each was awesome in his own way. But Daniel Ponce is touched by the gods. photo: AL Diaz
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• +7 · Copyright suit against salsa singer dismissed

  Filed Sep 29, 2006 at 3:48 AM · Willy Chirino has won a lawsuit that accused him of stealing his hit song Hechizo de Luna from two unknown songwriters.

  U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan late Wednesday dismissed the copyright infringement suit filed by Jaime Felipe Linares and Jorge Luis Linares, Cuban-born brothers from Kendall who compose music as a sideline to their jobs as ornamental metalworkers.

  ''We think the judge absolutely got it right,'' said Chirino's lawyer Richard C. Wolfe, of Wolfe & Goldstein in Miami. ``Willy's very happy. He didn't steal or copy anything.''

  
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