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Buena Vista Social Club

by Buena Vista Social Club

Released
December 18, 1998
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8 months ago
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Album review

Ry Cooder's name has helped bring attention to this session, but it's the veteran Cuban son musicians who make this album really special. Reminiscent of Ellington in its scope and sense of hushed romanticism, Buena Vista Social Club is that rare meld of quietude and intensity; while the players sound laid-back, they're putting forth very alive music, a reminder that aging doesn't mean taking to bed. Barbarito Torres's laoud solo on "El Cuarto de Tula" is both more blinding and more tasteful than any guitar showcase on any recent rock album; a quote from "Stormy Weather" and some very distinct parallels to Hawaiian styles remind us of why it's called "world music." --Rickey Wright

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The Buena Vista Social Club was the name of a members-only music club in Havana, Cuba that was at its height during the 1940s. In the late 1990s Wim Wenders made a movie upon the initiative of Ry Cooder called "The Buena Vista Social Club." Wenders film centered on Ry Cooder's efforts to find and reunite some of the musicians who had performed a...

Track list

  1. Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club, Eliades Ochoa
  2. De Camino a la Vereda - Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer
  3. Cuarto de Tula - Buena Vista Social Club, Ry Cooder
  4. Pueblo Nuevo - Buena Vista Social Club, Rub�n Gonz�lez
  5. Dos Gardenias - Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer
  6. Y T� Qu� Has Hecho? - Buena Vista Social Club, Compay Segundo
  7. Veinte A�os - Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo
  8. Carretero - Buena Vista Social Club, Eliades Ochoa
  9. Candela - Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer
  10. Amor de Loca Juventud - Buena Vista Social Club, Compay Segundo, Compay Segundo
  11. Orgullecida - Buena Vista Social Club, Compay Segundo
  12. Murmullo - Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer
  13. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club, Ry Cooder
  14. Bayamesa - Buena Vista Social Club, Manuel "Puntillita" Licea