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The Buena Vista Social Club was a Social club|members club in Havana , Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s. In the 1990s, nearly 50 years after the club was closed, it inspired a recording made by Music of Cuba|Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans who had performed at the club during the height of its popularity.

The recording, named Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social Club after the Havana institution, became an international success, and the ensemble was encouraged to perform with a full line-up in Amsterdam in 1998. German director Wim Wenders captured the performance on film, followed by a second concert in Carnegie Hall , New York City for a Documentary film|documentary that included interviews with the musicians conducted in Havana. Wenders' film, also called Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club , was released to critical acclaim, receiving an Academy Awards|Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Documentary Feature|Best Documentary feature and winning numerous accolades including Best Documentary at the European Film Awards .

The success of both the album and film sparked a revival of international interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music in general. Some of the Cuban performers later released well-received solo albums and recorded collaborations with international stars from different musical genres. The "Buena Vista Social Club" name became an umbrella term to describe these performances and releases, and has been likened to a brand label that encapsulates Cuba's "musical golden age" between the 1930s and 1950s. The new success was fleeting for the most recognizable artists in the ensemble: Compay Segundo , Rubén González (pianist)|Rubén González , and Ibrahim Ferrer , who died at the ages of ninety-five, eighty-four, and seventy-eight respectively; Segundo and González in 2003, then Ferrer in 2005.

Several surviving members of the Buena Vista Social Club, such as trumpeter Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal , laúd player Barbarito Torres and trombonist and conductor Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos currently tour worldwide, to popular acclaim, with new members such as the singer Carlos Calunga, virtuoso pianist Rolando Luna http://www.soycubano.com/pena/musica/rolando_lunai.asp http://www.last.fm/music/Rolando+Luna and occasionally the solo singer Omara Portuondo , as part of a 13 member band called Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club. http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/#ORQUESTA_BUENA_VISTA_SOCIAL_CLUB%C3%82%C2%AE::Biography

Social club

The Buena Vista (good view) Social Club members-only club was located in the populous Marianao neighborhood, in Cuba's capital Havana . According to Juan Cruz, a former master of ceremonies at the Salon Rosado Benny Moré nightclub in Havana, the club was located "on Calle 41 between 46 and 48".Godfried, Eugène. . AfroCubaWeb.com. Retrieved 12 April 2007 — . Intute at The University of Manchester, Retrieved 18 March 2010. When musicians Ry Cooder, Compay Segundo and a film crew attempted to identify the location of the club in the 1990s, local people could not agree on where it had stood.. Buena Vista Social Club site. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Retrieved 18 March 2015.

The club was run along the lines of a Cabildo (Cuba)|Cabildo , a community cofradía ( Fraternal and service organizations|fraternity or guild ) dating back to Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonialism . Cabildos in Cuba developed into Sociedades de Color , social clubs whose membership was determined by Ethnic group|ethnicity , at a time when slavery and racial discrimination against Afro-Cubans was Institutional racism|institutionalized .Godfried, Eugène. . . Retrieved 18 March 2007. Sociedades de Negros (Black Societies) existed throughout Cuba, and Havana boasted a number of closely linked organizations including the Marianao Social Club, Union Fraternal, Club Atenas—whose members included doctors and engineers—and the Buena Vista Social Club itself.

According to American guitarist Ry Cooder , Prominent musicians that performed at the club during the 1930s and 40s include bassist Cachao López and bandleader Arsenio Rodríguez . Rodríguez's pianist Rubén González (pianist)|Rubén González , who played piano on the 1990s recordings, described the 1940s as "an era of real musical life in Cuba, where there was very little money to earn, but everyone played because they really wanted to".. Rubén González. Nonesuch Records website. Retrieved 18 March 2007. The era saw the birth of the jazz influenced Mambo (music)|mambo , the charanga , and dance forms such as the pachanga and the Cha-cha-cha (Cuban dance)|cha-cha-cha , as well as the continued development of traditional Afro-Cuban musical styles such as Cuban Rumba|rumba and Son Cubano (music)|son , the latter transformed with the use of additional instruments by Arsenio Rodríguez to become son montuno .Garcia, David F. Cuban Music: A Review Essay . Notes - Volume 62, Number 1, September 2005, pp. 95–100 Son, described as "the bedrock of Cuban music", has shaped much of twentieth-century Latin music,. World Music Network. Retrieved 3 May 2007. and had a strong impact on popular music, not only in Latin America, but also in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Closure of musical venues and changing traditions

Shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, newly elected List of Presidents of Cuba|Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó , a devout Christian and liberalism|liberal , began a program of closing gambling outlets, nightclubs, and other establishments associated with Havana's hedonistic lifestyle. This had an immediate impact on the livelihoods of local entertainers.Quirk, Robert E. Fidel Castro . W. W. Norton & Company; New Ed edition (August 1995). p229. ISBN 0-393-31327-1 As the Cuban government rapidly shifted towards the left wing|left and an effort to build a "classless and colorblind society", it struggled to define policy toward forms of cultural expression in the black community; expressions which had implicitly emphasized cultural differences.Moore, Robin. Black Music in a Raceless Society: Afrocuban Folklore and Socialism . Cuban Studies - Volume 37, 2006. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 1–32. Consequently, the cultural and social centers were abolished, including the Afro-Cuban mutual aid Sociedades de Color in 1962, to make way for racially integrated societies.Segal, Ronald. The Black diaspora , Noonday Press, 1999. p.235. ISBN–10: 0374524904 Private festivities were limited to weekend parties and organizers' funds were confiscated.Gott, Richard. Cuba, A New History . Yale Nota Bene; New Ed edition (11 Nov 2005). p.174. ISBN 0-300-10411-1 The measures meant the closure of the Buena Vista Social Club. Although the Cuban government continued to support traditional music after the revolution, certain favor was given to the politically charged nueva trova , and poetic singer-songwriters such as Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés . The emergence of pop music and salsa music|salsa , a style derived from Cuban music but developed in the United States, meant that Son (music)|son music became even less common.

Cuban music experienced quite radical change in the 1960s, as National Geographic Society|National Geographic notes:

Cuban dance music also witnessed dramatic change beginning in the late 1960s, as groups explored the fusion of Cuban son with American rock, jazz and funk styles. Groups such as Los Van Van and Irakere established modern forms of Cuban music, paving the way for new rhythms and dances to emerge as well as fresh concepts in instrumentation. ... Cuba's dance music had already inspired a change from the older son-style dances, as younger Cubans broke free of step-oriented dances... http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/cuba_11

The occurrence of these closures and the change in traditions is the simplest explanation of why many musicians were out of work, and why their style of music had declined before the Buena Vista Social Club made it popular again.

Album

In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder had been invited to Havana by British world music Record producer|producer Nick Gold of World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit Records to record a session where two African High-life musicians from Mali were to collaborate with Cuban musicians. On Cooder's arrival (via Mexico to avoid the ongoing United States embargo against Cuba|U.S. trade and travel embargo against Cuba ),. Daily Telegraph (June 1997). Retrieved 20 March 2007. it transpired that the musicians from Africa had not received their visas and were unable to travel to Havana. Cooder and Gold changed their plans and decided to record an album of Cuban Son Cubano (music)|son music with local musicians.

Already on board the African collaboration project were Cuban musicians including bassist Orlando "Cachaito" López , guitarist Eliades Ochoa and musical director Juan de Marcos González , who had himself been organizing a similar project for the Afro-Cuban All Stars . A search for additional musicians led the team to singer Manuel "Puntillita" Licea , pianist Rubén González and octogenarian singer Compay Segundo, who all agreed to record for the project.

Within three days of the project's birth, Cooder, Gold and de Marcos had organized a large group of performers and arranged for recording sessions to commence at Havana's EGREM Studios, formerly owned by RCA records, where the equipment and atmosphere had remained unchanged since the 1950s.Steward, Sue. Guardian Unlimited (16 July 2003). Retrieved 18 March 2007. Communication between the Spanish and English speakers at the studio was conducted via an interpreter, although Cooder reflected that "musicians understand each other through means other than speaking".

The album was recorded in just six days and contained fourteen tracks; opening with " Chan Chan (song)|Chan Chan " written by Compay Segundo, a four chord Son Cubano (music)|son that was to become what Cooder described as "the Buena Vista's calling card"; Guardian Unlimited (17 July 2003). Retrieved 18 March 2007. and ending with a rendition of "La Bayamesa", a traditional Cuban patriotic song (not to be confused with the Cuban national anthem of La Bayamesa|the same name ).Zamora Céspedes, Bladimir. . La Jiribilla magazine. Juventud Rebelde . Retrieved 18 March 2007. "Desde finales de la segunda década del siglo pasado hasta nuestros días, no hay dudas de que en Bayamo se han escrito otras hermosas e importantes obras musicales, que podrían también llamarse bayamesas. Nadie puede negar sin embargo que las tres primeras bayamesas, compuestas ente 1851 y 1918, precisamente en un período rotundo de afirmación de nuestra identidad nacional, son parte entrañable del patrimonio de la nación cubana."
Translation: "From the end of the 1910s to the present day, there is no doubt that in Bayamo , beautiful and important music has been written that could also be called Bayamesas. Nobody can deny, nevertheless, that the first three Bayamesas, composed between 1851 and 1918 in a period of strong affirmation of our national identity, are a memorable component of the Cuban national heritage." The sessions also produced material for the subsequent release, Introducing... Rubén González , which showcased the work of the Cuban pianist.

One of the songs that featured on the album was "Buena Vista Social Club", a song written by bass player "Cachaíto"'s uncle, Israel "Cachao" López|Israel López , who also wrote Pueblo Nuevo, track 4 on the album. The song spotlighted the piano work of Rubén González and it was recorded after Cooder heard González improvising around the tune's musical theme before a day's recording session. After playing the piece, González explained to Cooder the history of the social club and that the song was the club's "mascot tune". When searching for a name for the overall project, manager Nick Gold chose the song's title. According to Cooder,
Upon release on 17 September 1997, the CD became a huge "word of mouth hit", far beyond that of most world music releases.. Rolling Stone Magazine. Retrieved 18 March 2007.Milward, John. . Salon.com : Entertainment (16 July 1998). Retrieved 18 March 2007. It sold more than five million copies and won a Grammy award in 1998.Clancy, Olive. . BBC Online (9 April 2001). Retrieved 18 March 2007. In 2003 it was listed by the New York based Rolling Stone magazine as #260 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .

Musicians

A total of twenty musicians contributed to the recording including Ry Cooder's son Joachim Cooder, (b. 1978) who at the time was a 19 year old scholar of Latin percussion and provided drums for the band. Ry Cooder himself played slide guitar on several songs and helped produce and mix the album, afterwards describing the sessions as "the greatest musical experience of my life". World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit Records site. Retrieved 18 March 2007. Ry Cooder had been a successful American guitarist since the 1960s, recording with Captain Beefheart and the Rolling Stones . Known for his slide guitar work, his interest in Traditional music|roots music led him to record music from diverse genres including Tejano music|Tex-Mex , Music of Hawaii|Hawaiian and Tuvans|Tuvan Overtone singing|throat singing . He was later prosecuted and fined $25,000 by U.S. authorities for his work on the Buena Vista Social Club , having broken the Trading with the Enemy Act , a clause that forms part of the ongoing United States embargo against Cuba|United States embargo . Guardian Unlimited (4 March 2007). Retrieved 18 March 2007.

Many of the Cuban musicians who featured on the album were at their musical prime in the 1940s and 50s. After the success of the 1997 record they became known in Cuba as " Los Superabuelos " (the Super-Grandfathers). Wim-wenders.com. Retrieved 18 March 2007. Juan de Marcos González , a Cuban folk revivalist who was younger than the bulk of performers introduced Cooder to veteran singer Ibrahim Ferrer . Ferrer (1927–2005) had been lead vocalist for bandleader Pacho Alonso , and also sang for Beny Moré , Cuba's most prominent performer in the 1940s, before his soft singing style fell out of fashion. Buena Vista Social Club site. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Retrieved 18 March 2007. Having found the semi-retired seventy year old Ferrer taking his daily stroll on the streets of Havana and shining shoes for extra money, González signed him up for the project. Cooder later described the discovery as something that happens "perhaps once in your life", and Ferrer as "the Cuban Nat King Cole ".Thigpen, David E. . Time (magazine)|Time magazine (1 August 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007. Ferrer became a prominent member of the group, and the success of the record was attributed in part to the popularity of his vocal performances. The singer went on to record a number of successful solo records and performed with contemporary acts such as the Gorillaz before his death in 2005 at the age of 78. BBC Online. Retrieved 18 March 2007.

Virtuoso pianist Rubén González (pianist)|Rubén González (1919–2003) also had further success releasing two solo albums after working on the initial project. González was a pianist for bandleader Arsenio Rodríguez in the 1940s, and is attributed with helping establish Cuban piano styles that were to dominate Latin music for the remainder of the century.Douglas, Struan. Archive Africa. Afibeat.com. Retrieved 23 March 2007. Despite suffering from arthritis and not even owning a piano at the time of recording with Cooder, (due to an infestation of termite s whilst living in South America) the American guitarist described him as "the greatest piano soloist I have ever heard".Gibbs, Stephen. BBC Online (9 December 2003). Retrieved 18 March 2007. After the success of the 1997 record, González recorded and toured with bassist Orlando "Cachaito" López , who was the only musician to play on all of the songs on the Buena Vista Social Club album. "Cachaito" (1933–2009) was the son of multi-instrumentalist Orestes López and the nephew of fellow bassist Cachao López|Israel "Cachao" López , the brothers often attributed with inventing the Mambo (music)|mambo .Zwerin, Mike. . International Herald Tribune (23 March 1995). Retrieved 18 March 2007. Named after his prestigious uncle, "Cachaito" (little Cachao) was a leading Descarga musician in the 1950s and '60s, a musical form that takes its influence from modern jazz , and he became the ever present bassist at Buena Vista Social Club performances and recordings.

One of the first to come onboard the project was Compay Segundo (born Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz) (1907–2003), who at 89 years old was the oldest of the performers. During a discussion about politics, the veteran Segundo said: "Politics? This new guy is good. The 1930s were rough. That's when we had the really bad times."

Other performers included singer Pío Leyva (1917–2006) who had been working with Segundo since the early 1950s,. BBC Online (23 March 2006). Retrieved 18 March 2007. and fellow and singer Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (1927–2000), who had performed with Celia Cruz and Benny Moré . Additional improvised percussion was provided by Amadito Valdés and Carlos González. The youngest established member of the group was Barbarito Torres , (b.1956) a virtuoso player of the laúd , a Cuban offshoot of the lute . Trumpet was provided by Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal , (b. 1933) who went on to release solo records under the Buena Vista presents... title.

Film

duetting on the song "Silencio" which appeared in Wim Wenders' 1999 film and on Ferrer's first solo release Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Ibrahim Ferrer .| -->
Shortly after returning from Havana to record the Buena Vista Social Club album, Ry Cooder began working with German film director Wim Wenders on the soundtrack to Wenders' film The End of Violence , the third such collaboration between the two artists. According to Wenders, it was an effort to force Cooder to focus on the project, "He always sort of looked in the distance and smiled, and I knew he was back in Havana."Rose, Charlie. PBS (17 September 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007. Although Wenders knew nothing about Cuban music at the time, he became enthused by tapes of the Havana sessions provided by Cooder, and agreed to travel to the island to film the recording of Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Ibrahim Ferrer , the singer's first solo album, in 1998. Variety (magazine)|Variety (18 February 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007.

The film became a box office success, grossing $23,002,182 worldwide.. Mojo Box Office. Retrieved 18 March 2007. Critics were generally enthusiastic about the story and especially the music,. Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 18 March 2007. although leading U.S. film critic Roger Ebert and the British Film Institute 's Peter Curran felt that Wenders had lingered too long on Cooder during the performances; and the editing, which interspersed interviews with music, had disrupted the continuity of the songs. Roger Ebert|Ebert, Roger . . Chicago Sun Times (25 June 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007. The film was nominated for an Academy Awards|Academy Award for best documentary feature in 1999. It won best documentary at the European Film Awards and received seventeen other major accolades internationally.

Performances

The first performances by the full line up of "Buena Vista Social Club", including Cooder, were those filmed by Wenders in Amsterdam and New York. Other international shows and T.V. appearances soon followed with varying line ups. Ibrahim Ferrer and Rubén González performed together in Los Angeles in 1998 to an audience that included Alanis Morissette , Sean Combs , and Jennifer Lopez , Ferrer dedicating the song Mami Me Gusto to the Hispanic Lopez.Milanovic Anji. Plume-Noire. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
Performances in Florida, which has a large Cuban exile and Cuban American community, were rare after the release of the film due to the political climate. In the late 1990s, a concert by Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba turned into a near riot when concert goers were attacked and spat at by protesters Opposition to Fidel Castro|opposed to the Cuban government .Levine, Art. Salon entertainment (9 March 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007. When "Buena Vista" musicians played for a music industry conference at Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach in 1998, hundreds of protesters chanted outside and the convention center hall was cleared briefly because of a bomb threat. In 1999, Ferrer and Ruben González were forced to cancel Miami shows citing fears for their safety after fellow-Cubans Los Van Van drew 4,000 protesters at a previous show, and Compay Segundo was forced to cut short a 1999 Miami performance due to another bomb threat. BBC Online (22 October 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007. When touring the U.S., the Cubans are only entitled to their per diem (transportation and lodging) and are not permitted performance fees due to the U.S. embargo. Public Broadcasting Service (16 November 1999). Retrieved 18 March 2007. In 2001 a Buena Vista Social Club (with Ibrahim Ferrer) performance was recorded in Austin for PBS and broadcasted on Austin City Limits in 2002.

"Buena Vista Social Club" continue to tour throughout the world as Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club , and despite the deaths of six of the original members, the collective performs with many of the remaining ensemble members including Barbarito Torres and "Guajiro" Mirabal.. The Times Online (12 March 2007). Retrieved 18 March 2007. Ry Cooder's guitar parts are handled by Manuel Galbán, a former member of Cuban vocal group Los Zafiros , who played on Ibrahim Ferrer's first solo record with Cooder and appeared in Wim Wenders' film.Jones, Chris. . BBC online. Retrieved 18 March 2007. Following a 2007 performance in London, a reviewer at The Independent described the ensemble as "something of an anomaly in music business terms, due to their changing line-up and the fact that they've never really had one defining front person", adding, "It's hard to know what to expect from what is more of a brand than a band."Male, Howard. Review, The Independent (12 March 2007). Retrieved 23 March 2007.

Impact and analysis

The international success of the Buena Vista Social Club generated a revival of interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music as a whole.Torres, George. "Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz (review)". Notes , Volume 60, Number 2, December 2003, pp. 426–428. Musical director Juan de Marcos felt that the recordings serve "as a symbol of the power of Cuban music, and which to a certain degree have contributed to Cuban music regaining the status it always had in Latin American and world music.". Buena Vista Social Club site. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Retrieved 23 March 2007.

Cuba's burgeoning Tourism in Cuba|tourist industry of the late 1990s benefited from this rebirth of interest. According to The Economist , "In the tourist quarters of Old Havana it can seem at times as if every Cuban with a guitar has come out to sing the songs that Buena Vista made famous. It's as if you were to go to Liverpool and find bands singing Beatles songs on every street corner." The Economist (15 December 2006). Retrieved 23 March 2007. Although the songs Buena Vista sings are not their own compositions, but actually they sing some popular songs in Cuba, which people have always performed in the street. Despite the appeal of the "Buena Vista" ambience to tourists, Cubans themselves were less aware of the "Buena Vista Social Club" than international music listeners. This was due to the foreign nature of the production, and the dominance of modern Timba , Songo music|Songo and other musical forms on the island, such as reggaeton|reggaetón by luminaries such as Raul Zeballos, the creator of the genre. Some explain that Buena Vista did not impact the Cuban audience, as they were not creating anything new; they were just playing the same songs that Cubans know and have been playing for many years.Santiago, Chiori. Global Rhythm (9 October 2005). Retrieved 23 March 2007.

Mari Marques, a Cuban American who leads cultural tours to Cuba, contests that the preponderance of traditional musicians was not solely a consequence of the "Buena Vista Social Club". Marques believes the notion that some music had been completely neglected in Cuba is "a romantic exaggeration that was propagated by U.S. media coverage", and the reality is that son trios have existed "everywhere in cities such as Santiago de Cuba in the east of the island." British world music record label Tumi Music , who had worked with de Marcos and many of the ensemble musicians prior to Cooder, asserted that Cuba has over 50,000 musicians, all as good as, and some as old as the "Buena Vista" participants, "but these people hardly ever have the opportunity to share their talents with the outside world." The label lamented that, "for the West to pay any real attention and consume the product, you needed someone like Ry Cooder to give it a stamp of approval first." Tumi music. Home page. Retrieved 23 March 2007.

Writer and academic Mike Gonzalez (historian)|Mike Gonzalez believes the ensemble provoked a backward glance to "timeless, sensual places where dreams and desire merged in a comfortable, evocative music". Gonzalez asserts that the aura evoked did not represent "the real Cuba" before the revolution of 1959, nor Cuba in the modern era, but that the Cuban government were happy for the tourist industry to "enjoy the fruits of this confusion".Gonzalez, Mike. Socialist review (June 2004). Retrieved 23 March 2007. The American Historical Review suggested that the Buena Vista Social Club 's mise en scène fueled nostalgic, idealistic feelings not only of many Americans and Cubans in the United States who remember the Havana of the 1950s, but also of Cubans in Cuba. The result was a reminiscence about the pre-revolutionary era—dominated by the politics of Gerardo Machado in the 1920s–30s and then General Fulgencio Batista until 1959—which "no longer seems so bad".. American Historical review. Retrieved 23 March 2007.

Discography

Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social Club (16 September 1997). World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit / Nonesuch Records .

Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (14 October 2008). World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit / Nonesuch Records .

Other releases

The below discography includes solo albums released since the first Buena Vista Social Club album that feature the musicians in the ensemble, and that are considered to be under the "Buena Vista Social Club" aegis. Allmusic. Retrieved 21 March 2007.

Rubén González (pianist)|Rubén González

* Introducing...Rubén González|Introducing... Rubén González (17 September 1997). Elektra Records|Elektra / Asylum Records|Asylum .

(Guest Musicians include Ry Cooder, Manuel Galbán, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez and Manuel "El Guajiro" Mirabal.)

* Chanchullo (17 September 2000). Elektra Records|Elektra .

(Guest musicians include Joachim Cooder, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer and Amadito Valdés.)

Barbarito Torres

* Havana Cafe (6 April 1999). Atlantic Records .

(Guest musicians include Manuel "El Guajiro" Mirabal, Ibrahim Ferrer, Pío Leyva and Omara .)

Ibrahim Ferrer

* Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Ibrahim Ferrer (8 June 1999). World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit / Nonesuch Records .

(Guest Musicians include Rubén González, Ry Cooder, Manuel Galbán, and Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez.)

* Buenos Hermanos (18 March 2003). Nonesuch Records .

(Guest musicians include Ry Cooder, Manuel Galbán, and Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez.)

* Mi Sueño (26 Mar 2007). World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit .

(Guest musicians include Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Manuel Galbán, Rubén González, Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, Omara , Amadito Valdés.)

Eliades Ochoa

* Sublime Illusion (29 June 1999). Higher Octave .

(Guest musicians include Ry Cooder.)

Omara Portuondo

* Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Omara (25 April 2000). World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit / Nonesuch Records .

(Guest musicians include Pío Leyva, Rubén González, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Eliades Ochoa, Compay Segundo and Amadito Valdés.)

* Flor de Amor (25 May 2004). World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit / Nonesuch Records .

(Guest musicians include Barbarito Torres, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez and Manuel Galbán.)

Orlando "Cachaito" López

* Cachaito (22 May 2001). Elektra Records|Elektra / Asylum Records|Asylum .

(Guest musicians include Juan de Marcos González, Amadito Valdés and Ibrahim Ferrer.)

Amadito Valdés

* Bajando Gervasio (10 December 2002). Primienta Records.

(Guest musicians include Barbarito Torres.)

Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal

* Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (4 January 2005). Nonesuch Records .

(Guest musicians include Ibrahim Ferrer, Pío Leyva, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Omara , Juan de Marcos González and Manuel Galbán.)

Various artists

* Rhythms del Mundo|Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba (14 November 2006). Hip-O

(musicians include Ibrahim Ferrer, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Barbarito Torres, Amadito Valdés, Omara performing alongside Coldplay , Arctic Monkeys , Dido (singer)|Dido , Quincy Jones , Kaiser Chiefs , Radiohead , U2 and Jack Johnson (musician)|Jack Johnson .)

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