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The career of the GRAMMY Award winner Bassist Charles Flores began in Cuba, with the Cuban jazz vocalist/composer Bobby Carcasses. While playing with Carcasses, he was recruited by pianist Emiliano Salvador, one of the key figures in the history of Cuban jazz. For the next three years, he performed throughout Europe and Latin America with Salvador and his quartet. Charles continued his musical career with the Latin-fusion group “Afro-Cuba” during 1992 and 1993 recording a CD titled “Acontecer.” After his stint with Afro-Cuba, he joined the Issac Delgado Group and toured internationally, while with Delgado he recorded three CD’s including “Con Ganas,” “EL Chevere de la Salsa y EL Caballero del Son,” and “EL Año que Viene.” Charles Flores musical creativity and distinct style of playing continues to be demonstrated in his performances with Michel Camilo, Jane Bunnett, Paquito D'rivera, J.P. Torres, Brian Lynch, Giovanni Hidalgo, David Sanchez, BBC Big Band,Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Alturo Sandoval, Dave Valentin, Steve Khan, Dafnis Prieto, Fahir Atakoglu, Dave Samuels, Siedah Garrett and others. In the year 2002 he joined the Michel Camilo Trio, performing throughout the most important jazz venues of the world. Recording the Live at the Blue Note Album, Charles Flores with Michel Camilo Trio won a Grammy for the Best Latin Jazz Album of the year 2004. Charles Flores ignites the jazz world with his powerful and inspiring performances.


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Charles Flores: Impressions Of Graffiti

Read "Impressions Of Graffiti" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Reared and educated in Cuba, bassist Charles Flores migrated to the US and evolved into a first-call session artist for saxophonist David Sanchez and flautist Dave Valentine among many others. Sadly, Flores' debut solo endeavor is a posthumous release as he succumbed to cancer on August 22, 2012. Yet it's a luminous testament to his holistic musicality. With impressive chops and knowing when to employ restraint, Flores is the traffic director on these invigorating and often Latin-tinged, multihued jazz-fusion pieces. ...

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Charles Flores: Impressions Of Graffiti

Read "Impressions Of Graffiti" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


No album should ever serve as a debut and a posthumously-released pièce de résistance, but such is the case with bassist Charles Flores' Impressions Of Graffiti. At the age of 40, the Grammy Award-winning bassist, who spent time working with pianist Michel Camilo, trumpeter Brian Lynch, reed master Paquito D'Rivera, drummer Dafnis Prieto, and numerous other Latin jazz notables, finally found time to put himself first, but his time quickly ran out; cancer took his life in August of 2012, ...

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Jazz Bassist Flores, Hartford Resident, Dies At 41

Jazz Bassist Flores, Hartford Resident, Dies At 41

Source: Michael Ricci

Charles Flores, a Grammy-winning jazz bassist who was born in Cuba but made his home in Hartford for more than two decades, died Wednesday at age 41. The cause was complications related to throat cancer, according to bandleader and composer Michel Camilo, who performed with Flores and counted him as a close friend. Flores had an “unforgettable smile," said Camilo, reached at his New York home. He was “truly gifted with a unique musical sensibility as well as a profound ...

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Dafnison Music
2013

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Pimienta Records
2005

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