GRP • Dave Valentin - Awakening [Live from The Record Plant 1985]

Live from The Record Plant 1985
Dave Valentin
Virtuoso flutist Dave Valentin brings his vibrant, innovative style and warmly engaging personality to the stage for this installment of Billy Taylor's Jazz At The Kennedy Center. Though jazz music is fundementally a product of several types of fusion, one of its richest subdivisions is the marriage of jazz and Afro-Latin rhythms known as Latin-Jazz. The Latin-Jazz sound was given wings by the partnership of trumpeter-bandleader Dizzy Gillespie and Cuban hand drummer Chano Pozo in the 1940s, a marriage arranged by bandleaders Machito and his brother-in-law Mario Bauza. Valentin carries on the tradition of these forbearers, while adding his own unique and creative expression.

[@woodfish148]

Thanks Dave for taking the time to teach me how to play flute while I was in JHS 133 in the Bronx. May you rest in peace.

[@jasonking6892]

The Greatest 👍🇬🇧

[@joepeople6149]

Rest in peace Dave. You will be missed. Your music will live on. Forever.

[@jordanfrancisco27]

I didnt know. Love his work. Only one Dave Valentin. 💔

[@aquinoeconomia]

El mejor flautista de América para el mundo:Dave Valentin. Sigue brillando por siempre desde el cielo.

[@damianomazzucco2908]

Fantastico è la prima volta che sento la sua musica, eccezionale dall'Italia riposa in pace

[@A.B.-zs8ir]

Rest in Peace Dave, There will NEVER be another like you, you made the world a better place.....

[@A.B.-zs8ir]

I had the feeling Dave was communicating w/the spirit world during this improvisation, it took me to another place in time, Rest in Peace my friend, you maybe gone, but you and your music will never be forgotten.

[@TheMusicsmooth]

Rest In Peace Dave .....

[@ponce1968]

An amazin jazz flautist, from my Puerto Rico. RIP boricua, thank you for your music. You are in heaven now with Tito Puente, Hector Lavoe, Frankie Ruiz, singing and dancin. He was a bad ass flautista, dios te bendiga hermano, descanza en paz.

[@richardturnier]

Yes, an amazing Nuyorican performer (born in the Bronx, it was his parents that were from Puerto Rico).

[@8dioproductions]

Beautiful - in every way!

[@MrFootlove72]

this guy is the greatest Flute player Ever along with his personal sound affects

[@rafaelmartinez567]

The Genius !! Puertorriqueño D.V.

[@stephenhammond8778]

He did the same thing in concert when you came to Detroit in 1991 he said he doesn't have a name for it he just made it up on the fly this guy is outstanding

[@jspcarrasco]

Genial, no te conocía, pero como flautista, te siento y te entiendo, gracias

[@jeffmomple6655]

I star to play the flute then I ve stop. Once I hear you playing the flute it was MAGIC. THEN I START TO PLAY THE FLUTE AGAIN. THANKS YOU BIG BROTHER.

[@AlanFernandoGamino]

For my past 20th birthday, he died on my 20th birthday… rest in piece Dave Valentin. :'(

[@KolePiter]

RIP BROTHER ♥

[@MisterstereoOso]

Absolute Bliss !! R.I.P. Mr.V.

[@hectordeleon1712]

He still inspires many mucisians and people in general who appreciates a GREAT FLAUTIST.

[@Jazzmarcel]

any doubts that this was one of the best latin flutist!..........incredible!

[@VadimShinnik]

Yes, Dave Valentin & Hubert Laws 😁👌

[@Jazzmarcel]

@@VadimShinnik if iam not mistaken, I think Dave studied with him!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@fredbass77]

The Magician

[@edigabrieli7864]

We flautists consider the flute a Noble instrument and think unless you enter a conservatory you are nothing...Well Valentin change all of that in a spectacular way.

[@edwinb9276]

NO ME IMPORTAN LAS OPINIONES, PERO DAVE VALENTINE ES EL MUSICO QUE PUDO LLEGAR A LAS INTERPRETACIONES, MELODIAS Y DE LLEVAR SENTIMIENTOS DE LA MUSICA, AL MUNDO. LAMENTABLEMENTE EL QUE NO LE ENTIENDE, ES PORQUE LE FALTA UN POQUITO DE CONOCER EL VALOR Y DE DONDE VIENE LA MUSICA. LOS SONIDOS SON NUESTRO SISTEMA DE COMUNICACION Y SI ESTAS EN DESACUERDO DE ESO. PONGANSE A ESTUDIAR.

[@carlosvilanovagomez]

el Mejor del todo el Mundo

[@wyndhl9465]

Mr. Sound a la Rahsaan Roland Kirk... great flute tone and articulation...

[@jeffmomple6655]

You are the best. GOD BLESS YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. AMEN GLORY to God

[@mimiswensen7309]

Correction: DV and his Ensemble ARE the greatest!

[@begotten59]

Rest in Jesus Dave 🌹☝️

[@jesusrosales9263]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@margaretpatel3339]

Those first two flutes (biggest one and smallest one)... so beautiful... what are they called?

[@richardturnier]

The big one is a bass flute made out of bamboo -- if you search for images of one you can see that bass flutes have a J shape, which is done to put the embouchure (mouthpiece) nearer to the finger holes... without this bend it would be unplayable because they would be too far from each other (if you really want to see this taken to extreme, look up "double contrabass flute"). For Dave's bamboo version, this bend was accomplished by using a thinner/smaller piece mounted onto the larger "body". I believe the second small flute that he plays is simply a basic small bamboo flute. You might hear the term "minor flute" used, but that usually relates to the key they play in, not their size.

[@bisagraful]

Hi Margaret, the big one it's called "Moxeño" or "Moseño" or "Moceno". Probably is a post colombian instrument , usually played by Central Andes cultures. The small flute may be a Brazilian Pife (I'm not sure)

[@s.s.paparucha2115]

nunca Jamas...nunca....

[@pittiplatsch9635]

Big Flute!!😳

[@edwincancelii2917]

“Just need a little bit o’ help.”