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# Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall

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## Customer Reviews

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    SABROSO!
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2013*

GONZALEZ, Ruben. Chanchullo.  Nonesuch. 2000. $16.52.RG, p; others incl. Ibrahim Ferrer, Cheikh Lo, voc.BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB. Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall.  Nonesuch. 2 CDs. 2008. $18.38.Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo, voc; Ruben Gonzalez, p; Barbarito Torres, laud; Ry Cooder, guit; others.MARIZA. Fado Tradicional. EMI Import. 2011. $18.99.M, voc; 2 guit, 1 b guit accompaniment.ALAGNA, Roberto. Pasion.  Deutsche Gramophon. 2011. $14.84.RA, voc; Lila Downs, voc; others.A double dose (actually triple because one album has two CDs) of Cuban musicians, an album of traditional Portuguese fado music, and a surprisingly effective homage to popular music sung in Spanish, from Mexican mariachi to Argentinian tango. Not a bad assemblage of Latin popular music in a variety of styles and rhythms, all admirably performed.First the Cubans.Master pianist (and showman! watch him play on the music documentary, Buena Vista Social Club) Ruben Gonzalez was eighty-one when this album was recorded but you wouldn't know it from his playing, which is supple and graceful and always, always driven by an impeccable sense of rhythm and drama, which allowed him to up the temperature even on the slowest and most stately numbers. His band, which had played with him for ages, matches him all the way through. This is very good, accessible, lovely music, and the up tunes will get your blood flowing faster.Two years earlier, Gonzalez, then a mere seventy-nine, was one of the stars of the multi-star concert of the wonderful group of musicians who made the movie, Buena Vista Social Club, such a treat. Here are Ibrahim Ferrer, "Cuba's Nat `King' Cole," his feminine counterpart Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo  (he is allowed a solo lead spot on one of the tunes), laud virtuoso Barbarito Torres (the laud is kind of a lute), and others, including American Ry Cooder on slide guitar. (Listen to Cooder's backing lines on Ferrer and Portuondo's Silencio.) Two of my favorite songs from the movie are reprised, the wonderful Chan Chan and Ferrer and Portuondo's duet on the ravishingly beautiful love ballad Silencio  (in a quite different version than in the movie). All- I mean ALL- of the musicians are first rate. They all seem to have ego in wanting to perform well on their own songs but their egos don't clash when helping each other out on other performer's numbers. Above all, they all seem so happy.It makes for an infectious album of joyous music. An album like this is irreplaceable. Some of these performers are gone now -Segundo and Gonzalez in 2003, Ferrer in 2005--and the others are getting older and older. (Omara Portuondo is 82 now.) We lost thirty years of listening to these wonderful artists music because of the blockade. Thank goodness we have the opportunity to make up for it now.Then there's Mariza. The music on this album is, as the album title says, more traditional than in some of her other albums, where she has used more modern instrumentation, rhythms and song styles. (Transparente [2005] for example, with its marvelous "Meu Fado Meu.") The backup is more traditional also -an acoustic trio of two guitars and a bass guitar. As always, Mariza has what singers of my age call "pipes." Her voice is strong and plangent (not "plangent" in the sense of loud and echoing; "plangent" as in melancholy, conveying emotion). She bends notes freely and well and her grace note passages are models of popular singing. Perhaps the most memorable of the songs is "Ai, Esta Pena de Mim," which is sung partly unaccompanied. She is joined for the final song by a rather histrionic male singer whom I could clearly have done without. Excluding the final song, how do I feel about the album? It's good but best in small bites. The problem is the lack of variety. Song by song, this is strong stuff but listened to in one dose, it's a bit much.Roberto Alagna is an operatic tenor. Again, very good pipes, and because he sings opera, a florid, highly dramatic style. Usually, that would be the Kiss of Death for me, whose middle name could be Anti-Florid. But I like the album quite a bit. Many of these songs are hyper-dramatic to start with, and Alagna's sympathy for them is catching. The selections are wide ranging in style and mood, from tango to mariachi-like. I especially enjoyed "Historia de un Amor," sung in duet with the astonishing Mexican singer, Lila Downs. This is a very good album.

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    Very good pressing and music
  

*by G***O on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2021*

I bought this on CD 5 years ago. Now the vinyl.The pressing is very good, flat and very quiet. The recording is also very good.I got mine from TheProductsHub.... it took a long time to be delivered. The vinyl is pressed in UK and then send it to their office in US and from there to me. Took many weeks, no tracking, but it arrived in perfect shape.The wait was worth it, however they should advertise the lead time.

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    Wonderful! Film? And why, Ry?
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2008*

Superb in every way--this is the temporary fix for all of us who watched Wim Wender's documentary and were enraptured by the film clips of the BVSC members at Carnegie--all too brief clips of masters at work. So, for those of you who want a work of art, a masterpiece of voice, guitar, piano, trumpet, saxophone, drums and more, this is it!Two small bumps: When can we get the DVD of the concert in full? I am sure I am not the only one who craves to SEE these musicians actually singing and playing!And finally, it's great that Ry Cooder was the mastermind behind this and so my following complaint is muted but...it's annoying that HIS name is top of the CD's sticker, HIS name is top of the poster seen on the cover, and when you watch BVSC, the film clips often cut to Cooder, who had about 2% of the total musical load in this whole thing. BVSC is, IMHO, solely and fully about a group of amazing Cubans, not a white guy from the USA. Cooder is of course an excellent musician in his own right but he does NOT deserve to be shown equally with Ibrahim, Ruben, Compay, etc. It feels like egoistic pandering to the producer, and it's annoying. Cash your producer checks Ry and enjoy the fruits of your labor but DON'T try and hog the limelight from the BVSC! After 80 years of obscurity, they deserve it all. But thank you for bringing them to the world!

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