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	Afro Cuban All Stars
		Afro Cuban All Stars’ eerste schijf ‘A Toda Cuba Le Gusta’ was hoofdzakelijk gewijd aan de jaren vijftig, dé glansperiode van de mambo en de cha-cha-cha.
		Op ‘Distinto, Diferente’ willen de Afro Cuban All Stars de wereld tonen dat ze ook moeiteloos aktuele muziekstijlen beheersen.
		De Grammy-genomineerde Afro Cuban All Stars voorstellen hoeft geen betoog meer.
	cityguides.salsaweb.com /belgium/music/salsa/allstars.htm (359 words)

	Afro-Cuban All-Stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afro-Cuban All-Stars is a Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos González (formerly drummer for Sierra Maestra).
		Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá, salsa, son montuno, timba, guajira, danzón, rumba and abakua.
		They are especially well-known internationally for their 1997 album A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, which was recorded at the Buena Vista Social Club sessions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afro-Cuban_All-Stars (112 words)

	Afro-Cuban All Stars
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars' debut, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta (Nonesuch), got a bit lost in the shuffle last year.
		The All Stars, a crack multigenerational ensemble assembled by Juan de Marcos González to play the classic conjunto tunes of the '40s and '50s, were even overshadowed by another revivalist band, José Almedy's Cubanismo.
		A long descarga (jam session) featured a tres (Cuban guitar) solo full of chromatic embellishments plus lead trumpeter Daniel Ramos Alayo, who peppered his muted solo with quotes in a leisurely improvisation over slow, velvety percussion.
	bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/10/22/REX/AFRO_CUBAN_ALL_STARS.html (329 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Afro-Cuban All-Stars
		The most obvious influence is the Afro-Cuban bop of Dizzy Gillespie (Gonzalez, with his beret and sharp suit, nods toward the great trumpeter, while his thick dreadlocks are completely contemporary), while touches of New Orleans and funk also make appearances; pianist David Alfaro Garcia, featured in the early going, has assimilated much from post-war jazz.
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Seeing performers such as Ibrahim Ferrer and Compay Segundo slowly cross the stage was like charting the supernova before a star dies out; their shows were a last gasp before the traditions of a golden age fall away.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117920696?categoryid=34&cs=1 (434 words)

	Calvo, Carlos on Encyclopedia.com
		AFRO CUBAN ALL STARS Profetas en tierra ajena: El legendario grupo de Juan de Marcos -con la incorporacion del ex Van Van 'Pedrito Calvo'- se gano la ovacion total del publico marcadamente...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Calvo-C1a.asp (504 words)

	A Night in Cuba: Afro-Cuban All Stars
		She is known as one of the glories of Cuban music and perhaps the best bolero singer on the island.
		(born 1919) is one of the legendary figures in Cuban music, whose piano sound started trends and established styles for decades.
		He is one of three pianists, the others Luis "Lili" Martinez and Peruchin, who helped shape the future sound of Cuban music, developing the Mambo and embracing modern jazz harmonies.
	www.ovationtv.com /cuba/allstar2.html (730 words)

	Sals@lemania - Afro Cuban All Stars
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars album was the first to be recorded in the now famous Buena Vista Social Club sessions and Gonzalez' band provided the springboard for many of the musicians for the success that followed.
		Als de Marcos seine "Afro Cuban All Stars" 1996 gründete, ging es ihm allerdings auch darum, den Son auch in der eigenen Heimat am Leben zu erhalten.
		Styled as a traditional Cuban septeto group (tres, trumpet, bass, percussion arid vocals), the dynamic young band's aim was to bring about an appreciation of Cuban son by the youth of the island.
	www.salsalemania.de /afrocubanallstars.htm (1351 words)

	Afro Cuban All Stars, bush fake
		Afro Cuban All Stars bush fake Die Erinnerung gilt freilich nicht nur den alten Orten, sondern - bei afro cuban all stars Fernstudenten insbesondere - jenen weithin geschätzten Lehrbüchern wie "Funktionale Anatomie" von Tittel, "Bewegungslehre" von Meinel und Schnabel, "Biomechanik sportlicher Bewegungen" von Hochmuth oder "Trainingslehre" von Harre.
		Dies ist eine Infoseite über Afro Cuban All Stars
		Vor dem Symposium, zu dem auch eine interessante Informationsbroschüre vorgelegt wird, haben Afro Cuban All Stars die Teilnehmer des Treffens Gelegenheit (14.30 Uhr), Sport- und Studienstätten zu besichtigen.
	www.bb-creative.de /docs/afro_cuban_all_stars_1255.html (145 words)

	Afro Cuban All Stars: Distinto, Diferente Jan 28, 2000
		Its arranging and organizational force, Juan De Marcos, released the first Afro Cuban All Stars album, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, at the same time as the Buena Vista recording.
		By now, many are familiar with the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, in which the aging American guitarist Ry Cooder traveled to Havana, Cuba, assembled a group of legendary Cuban musicians—many all but forgotten even in their native land—and recorded a Grammy-winning album.
		And the fact that a new generation has been exposed to the treasures of one of the most vital musical traditions in the world—some of whose members no longer even owned instruments and were working as shoe-shiners in Havana's streets—can only be seen as positive.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxix/2000.01.28/ae/p15afrocuban.html (387 words)

	WAC Press Release 1998 Afro-Cuban All-Stars
		The Afro-Cuban All-Stars were formed as an answer to the tide of unimaginative, American-influence uniformity not a throwback to another era but an essential attempt to re-inject fresh vitality into great Cuban musical tradition.
		Recently several of the Afro-Cuban All-Stars performed in the most anticipated concert of the summer at a sold-out Carnegie Hall with Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club which garnered exceptional reviews.
		Twin Cities audiences will have the opportunity to experience the exuberant sounds from the Golden Age of Cuban jazz that has been banned from these shores for decades when the Afro-Cuban All-Stars perform at First Avenue Nightclub on Wednesday, October 7, at 8 pm.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/C/81A391472CBB10116161.htm (663 words)

	U.S. silences Cuban beat - MUSIC - MSNBC.com
		Since November, every Cuban musician who applied for a visa — 151 in all — has been turned down, including the five Grammy nominees invited to the recent awards' ceremony.
		However, the Cuban musicians say the reverse is actually true.
		That essentially blocked virtually everyone since 90 percent of the Cuban economy is state-dominated.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/4286635 (1260 words)

	A Night in Cuba: Afro-Cuban All-Stars
		The members of the Afro-Cuban All Stars, brought together by Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, reminisce about their careers and the music that means so much to them.
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars is a 13-piece band comprising four generations of Cuba's finest musicians.
		The All Stars' repertoire includes a great range of Cuban musical styles including danzon, son, guaguanco, mozambique, afro, mambo and guajira.
	www.ovationtv.com /cuba/allstars.html (123 words)

	Metroactive Music Afro-Cuban All Stars
		It was a response to the fusion-heavy 1980s in Cuban music when such legends as Irakere, Afro-Cuba, Emiliano Salvador and others were digging deep into jazz-rock experiments.
		LAST YEAR, Juan de Marcos González was on the TV show 60 Minutes 2 talking about his hopes for the future of Cuban music in a piece looking at the phenomenon of the Buena Vista Social Club.
		As a pivotal participant in the landmark 1997 Havana recording session with Ry Cooder and Nick Gold, de Marcos spoke with sincerity about marrying the past with the present and maintaining the traditional identity of Cuban music around the world.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.07.01/afrocuban-0123.html (597 words)

	Juan De Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All-Stars - Live in Japan Movie: Juan De Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All-Stars - Live in Japan DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The All-Stars are comprised of four generations of talented artists, culled from other projects such as Crisol, The Buena Vista Social Club, Sierra Maestra, Irazu and many others.
		Their repertoire reflects the span of Cuban traditional music, which bandleader De Marcos has made it his mission to share with the world.
		Known for his work as artistic director for the Buena Vista Social Club, he is recognized as a musical ambassador and an accomplished musician.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/899552000039BT (187 words)

	Ibrahim Ferrer
		Following the success of Rubén González sell-out tours across Europe in 1998, stars of the Buena Vista Social Club return to the stage for a seven week tour of Europe in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Scandinavia.
		Ferrer’s victory has occurred at a time of some rivalry between the older generation of Cuban musicians, steadfast promoters of traditional son, and groups that have incorporated a new sound into this type of music, without betraying its son roots.
		The same CD was nominated in the salsa category, which was won by Celia Cruz, a Cuban living in the United States.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /ibrahimferrer.html (1083 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts features Released from the revolution: the new wave of Cuban music
		Cubans may have felt isolated after the revolution, but all that has changed.
		Since the 1959 revolution, Cuban musicians have been cut off from the outside world, allowed to release music in Cuba only through one of the state-owned companies like Egrem.
		It's the place where almost all the Cuban musicians have recorded their feelings, their passions and their music.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1407393,00.html (1114 words)

	New Statesman: Hot from Havana - Afro-Cuban All-Stars band's tour in the US
		After all, the rhythms of Cuban music were deemed to be so complex that a new variant was invented especially for those American tourists who found them difficult to dance to.
		Living on meagre state pensions, with an allowance of four inferior-quality cigars a month, musicians who had once been stars of the big bands, like Ruben Gonzalez and the wonderful 70-year-old singer Ibrahim Ferrer, were in semiretirement, kicking their heels between infrequent live dates or engagements for the official recording company, Egrem.
		It's a source of considerable satisfaction that the nearly 40-year-old economic and cultural blockade of Cuba by the United States threatens to be shattered not by the efforts of national diplomacy, but by the music of a group of old men with beautiful manners.
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0FQP/n4397_v127/21058267/p1/article.jhtml (784 words)

	Afro Cuban All Stars - Warariansa - Last.fm
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		Of all 560 people that have listened to songs by Afro Cuban All Stars, this represents 10%.
		Afro Cuban All Stars - Warariansa - Last.fm
	www.last.fm /music/Afro+Cuban+All+Stars/_/Warariansa (76 words)

	The Afro-Cuban All-Stars to Perform at Oberlin College
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars, a multi-generational band with a mission to explore Cuba's rich musical heritage and show the world the diversity, continuity, and vitality of the island's music, will perform at Oberlin College's Finney Chapel (90 North Professor Street) as part of the group's second national tour on Friday, April 14 at 8 p.m.
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars' appearance on campus is sponsored by the Assemblies Committee, the Student Union, and the Multicultural Resource Center.
		With a cast of over 50 musicians, one of Gonzalez' aims for the All Stars is to have the group act as a launch pad for the careers of other Cuban musicians.
	www.oberlin.edu /news-info/00apr/afro-cuban_all-stars.html (308 words)

	The Seattle Times: Obituaries: Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Cuban singer
		Ferrer singing most of the songs in the 1997 Afro-Cuban All Stars' debut album, "A Todo Cuba le Gusta." The Grammy-winning recording quickly followed, selling 6 million copies with the modest Mr.
		Ibrahim Ferrer, the humble, soft-spoken Cuban singer who achieved long-delayed international fame only after he was recruited for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, has died.
		Ferrer and his colleagues in the highly popular Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Buena Vista Social Club," chronicling the history of Cuban music from the 1940s to the present.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/obituaries/2002426696_ferrerobit08.html (360 words)

	MTU--Tech Arts Festival: Afro-Cuban All Stars
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars' concert at Michigan Tech is made possible by the MTU Memorial Union Board, the MTU Committee for Campus Enrichment, and the Michigan Tech Fund and is coordinated through the University Cultural Enrichment Department (487-2844).
		Many members of the Afro-Cuban All Stars have had formal music training at the great schools such as the Havana Conservatoire and the Escuela Nacional de Arte, and some of them currently teach in the schools where they were trained.
		He sought out the "young lions" of Cuban jazz, as well as some of the greatest musicians from Cuba's pre-revolutionary era, who were all but forgotten, subsisting on $15-a-month pensions and menial jobs such as shoe-shining and rolling cigars.
	www.admin.mtu.edu /urel/breaking/2000/cuban.html (572 words)

	The Daily Page: Music: Afro-Cuban All Stars
		But as a working musician (he plays the guitar-like tres with the All Stars) and composer, he has no interest in transforming the history of Cuban music into a quaint shtick.
		That album has made international stars out of singer Ibrahim Ferrer and seminal charanga pianist Rubén González (when de Marcos found him, González didn't even own a piano!), and the mix of old and young players on the All Stars' recordings has also charmed the American charts.
		The result, says González, is that the complex, polyrhythmic Cuban style known as son montuno has been blended with everything from Backstreet Boys harmonizing to mainstream rap.
	thedailypage.com /going-out/music/news/managedit.php?intmusicnewsid=48 (649 words)

	Afro Cuban All Stars - English version
		The Afro Cuban All Stars first record ‘A Toda Cuba Le Gusta’ was devoted mainly to the fifties, the glamour period of Mambo and Cha-Cha-Cha.
		On this ‘Distinto, Diferente’ the Afro Cuban All Stars want to show the world that they also master other more modern music styles.
		The Afro Cuban All Stars (a 17 men Orchestra) will join us here in Belgium in the 'Ancienne Belgique' on 10 November.
	cityguides.salsaweb.com /belgium/music/salsa/allstars_en.htm (388 words)

	A&L Performing Arts News Release - Afro-Cuban All Stars
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars are presented by UCSB Arts and Lectures and sponsored by the Santa Barbara Independent and KCBX Public Radio.
		The original All Stars line-up was de Marcos’s brainchild and the initial project galvanized the Cuban music industry, launching both the Buena Vista Social Club sessions and worldwide interest in the seemingly dormant giant of Latin music.
		True to his word, the second All Stars album Distinto, Differente accomplished what its title promises, to be “unique and different.” While still featuring the more traditional Cuban song-forms of son and bolero, the band also plays more contemporary music like a high-energy version of timba, the new wave salsa currently hot in Havana.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2002-2003/pr/allstars.asp (628 words)

	REVIEW / Celebration of Afro-Cuban culture ends with a bang at Bimbo's
		Then Calloway, who plays flute, upped the ante, bringing out the West Coast Afro Cuban All-Stars, including local hotshots Mark Levine (piano), David Belove (bass), Michael Spiro (congas), Jesus Diaz (timbales), John Santos (bongos) and a monster horn section of Melecio Magdaluyo (saxes), Wayne Wallace (trombone) and Mike Olmos (trumpet).
		As the great Cuban bassist Israel "Cachao" López sounded his last notes at a dance concert by the Cineson All-Stars at Bimbo's 365 Club Saturday, the packed audience was revved up and screaming for more.
		The Afro Cuban Alumni Association ensemble, made up of current and former students of San Francisco State music instructor John Calloway, performed contemporary and traditional Cuban songs.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/08/DDGN8BKPRK1.DTL (925 words)

	Tumi Cuban and Latin American Music
		When the appetite for Cuban music was just beginning, Cubanía delivered the perfect combination of uptempo big band son mixed with salsa elements, a strong horn section and some of Cuba's best vocalists including Tiburon, whose distinctive hoarse voice, ingenious grace and clever improvisations all distil the true essence of son.
		Mixing Cuban son with the deepest elements of Cuban music together with soul, jazz, rap and funk this dynamic group is fast becoming the rising star on the international world music scene.
		Since their beginning in 1956 as well as being one of the most important Cuban bands, Orquesta Revé has qualified as Cuba's most important musical school; a place where many of the country's top musicians from bands such as Los Van Van, Los Dan Den and Los 440, began their artistic careers.
	www.tumimusic.com /english/promoter.htm (3488 words)

	Afro-Cuban All-Stars
		In his role as musical director, arranger and tres player with the Afro-Cuban All-Stars, González has taken the next logical step.
		The sound is modern, very jazzy, like Machito’s big band, in chord progressions and harmonies." Classic sones and boleros, cha-chas and guaguanco keep Afro-Cuban All-Stars just as firmly traditional.
		If you’ve seen the film Buena Vista Social Club, you may remember the fella with the dreads and the big grin.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/062101/mus.pickf.shtml (149 words)

	CubanFire - Juan de Marcos y Los Afro Cuban All-Stars
		Founded by Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, the Afro Cuban All Stars were one of the first tastes of Cuban music that the free world had experienced.
		The Afro Cuban All Stars features members from Cuba's leading bands and captures the flavor of the great big bands of the 1950s.
		The unparalleled harmonies and vocal arrangements of the Afro Cuban All-Stars are a hybrid of the best in Cuba featuring Crisol (featuring Chucho Valdes and Roy Hargrove), The Buena Vista Social Club, Sierra Maestra, Irazu and many others.
	cubanfire.com /cubanfire/artist/juandemarco.html (217 words)

	SalsaPower! - Cuban Casino-style Salsa Around the World!
		Cuban music can be found in virtually every corner of the globe, and we bring you artist interviews and concert and CD reviews of the best artists around!
		We'd rather dance the authentic Cuban Casino-style that was the origin of the other styles in the first place!
		There are numerous Salsa related websites on the internet, but this one is your definitive source for Casino style Salsa and Rueda de Casino dance, as well as Cuban music, around the world.
	www.salsapower.com (409 words)

	Clave Concepts: Afro Cuban Rhythms by Alex Pertout
		In order to understand Afro Cuban rhythms one must pursue an extensive study of the clave role and its relationship with the instruments, compositions and arrangements.
		There are two major clave styles in Afro Cuban music; the son clave and the rumba clave.
		Clave Concepts: Afro Cuban Rhythms by Alex Pertout
	www.netspace.net.au /~pertout/lclaveac.htm (421 words)

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