Chucho Valdés 85th Birthday Celebration With Special Guests Joe Lovano and Terence Blanchard
Friday, October 16, 2026 · 7:30 PM · Jazz at Lincoln Center, Manhattan
The Read
Valdés founded Irakere and has been the central figure in Cuban jazz piano for fifty years. Lovano and Blanchard are not accompanists here. Three bandleaders on one bill usually means a long night and a few things nobody planned.
The Venue
Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle, 5th Floor
Jazz at Lincoln Center offers a concert hall, a smaller stage and a club, giving the same music several different kinds of audience.
Tickets
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Also playing
The same booking at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2 dates in all.
- Fri Oct 16 · this one
- Sat Oct 17
Nearby After This
Somewhere close by, only when the timing actually works.
Music
Shape The Night
Before
Brasserie BouludDaniel Boulud's brasserie across Broadway from Lincoln Center, opening on September 17, 2026 in the combined space that held Bar Boulud, Boulud Sud and Épicerie Boulud until they closed in July 2025. Two floors and more than ten thousand square feet, designed by the Rockwell Group, with express menus planned around curtain times.
7:30 PM · Chucho Valdés 85th Birthday Celebration With Special Guests Joe Lovano and Terence Blanchard
After
Russian SamovarInfused vodkas by the carafe with a piano going late. Brodsky and Baryshnikov backed it in 1986 and the late crowd still skews people who just finished working.