A stunning solo debut album from the master of the Cuban piano, Pepesito Reyes introduces a brilliant collection of danzón — the elegant dance music which swept the 1920s Cuban music scene from Havana to New York. 

Includes the classic, La Guantanamera, for which Reyes composed the original piano line.

Pepesito Reyes has performed with Benny Moré, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Tito Puente, and countless others. His free-flowing improvisational style has influenced an entire generation of pianists. A club legend in New York, Reyes, at the venerable age of 85, continues to perform around the world.

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The 1940s marked Pepesito Reyes’ “American Epoch”. He spent ten years in New York City’s Cafe Metropolis, where he met many great artists with whom he would share the stage, plans, and musical secrets. Pepesito flavored American jazz standards of the time with his own Cuban flair and created an absolute sensation in the New York club scene. From famed musicians to the jet set, any one who was any one crammed into the cafe to hear this incredible experience of sound and rhythm. It was at the Cafe Metropolis that Pepesito bewitched Nat King Cole, the first of his American friends who heard his talent. Later, Duke Ellington, with whom he played on numerous occasions, also fell under the spell. Pepesito’s name spread like wildfire through the radio stations and among journalists who heard the intoxicated performances at the Metropolis. This is how Tito Puente, who hired him to add his Cuban touch, his dazzling dancing keys, discovered him. Pepesito’s talent and prestige turned him into one of the brightest stars in the Big Apple, where he became the mainstay of any concert, party, or jam session he attended. 

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