― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
I liked the music. Yes, this revival in America was marketed to 50 plus National Public Radio listeners only, and yea it's wrong that younger Cuban musicians aren't getting coverage as well, but well, you can't have everything.
― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
This is a great record:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005J55.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Star Hustler, Monday, 15 December 2003 05:55 (twenty years ago) link
Saw an enjoyable doc on PBS about Eliades Ochoa, From Cuba to the World. Covers his days in dive bars where sex workers threw in coins to get him to keep playing to his Buena Vista work, a video that made him bigger in Cuba, and a collaborative effort with Malians. A bit is confusing if you don’t know his history but still worth checking out
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/theater/buena-vista-social-club-musical-cuban.html
Buena Vista Social Club becomes an off -Broadway musical with actors playing the musicians, the songs in Spanish, and the dialogue in English. Short off-Broadway run at Linda Gross Theater in NY through Jan 7
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 November 2023 19:40 (four months ago) link