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	Buena Vista Social Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Buena Vista Social Club about some of the musicians who had performed there and their involvement in the production of an album released in 1997 also called Buena Vista Social Club.
		Both movie and album were highly successful, and started a craze for Cuban music in the United States and Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club (165 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The album was produced by Ry Cooder who travelled to Cuba to record sessions with the musicians, many of whom were previously unknown outside of that country.
		The musicians who feature in this album were all once part of the Buena Vista Social Club, a membership club that was at its height during the 1940s; many of them have been performing in Cuba for the last sixty years.
		Buena Vista Social Club started a craze in the Western World for Latin American music, particularly Cuban music.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(album) (210 words)

	Ibrahim Ferrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born at a dance in San Luis, near the city of Santiago de Cuba, Ferrer's mother died when he was 12, leaving him orphaned and forcing him to sing on the streets to earn money.
		It was not until almost 40 years later, with the release of Ry Cooder's Grammy Award winning Buena Vista Social Club recording in 1999, that Ibrahim Ferrer's talent as a bolero singer would become widely known.
		The youngest member of the Buena Vista Social Club, Ferrer still toured internationally in Europe in 2005, and released his second solo recording, Buenos Hermanos, in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibrahim_Ferrer (453 words)

	Biographies - Buena Vista Social Club
		Ry Cooder met her in Havana before the sessions for Buena Vista, and the following year, during the legendary sessions, Omara happened to be recording at EGREM Studios at the same time.
		One of the many unforgettable musical moments on The Buena Vista Social Club album is “Barbarito” Torres’ laúd solo on “El Cuarto de Tula.” The laúd is a 12-string instrument of the lute family, emitting, especially on its high register, a piercing, metallic tone that is perfect for fast, single-note improvising.
		Buena Vista albums have topped the charts everywhere from Germany to Japan, and in his native England, the artists are treated like royalty when they arrive for concert dates.
	www.pbs.org /buenavista/musicians/bios.html (2060 words)

	Ibrahim Ferrer : Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Ibrahim Ferrer - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		When the Buena Vista Social Club album was released to great acclaim in 1997, it revived the careers of quite a few incredibly talented aging Cuban musicians.
		Ferrer's album is pleasant, the kind of album you could put on during brunch on a sunny morning.
		The rest of the album is nice, but rarely as inspired or joyous as the original Buena Vista release.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,849727,00.html (411 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club
		This year’s Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders) beautifully blends the past and the present on the island.
		Buena Vista Social Club presents Ibrahim Ferrer has just been released in the States, coinciding with the release Wim Wender’s film that documents their music making.
		The spotlight is on Ferrer the entire time on this album, though the rest of the band generously support him with their musicianship.
	www.plume-noire.com /music/favorite/buena.html (827 words)

	PBS presents Buena Vista Social Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The wistful irony of this story is that the club at the mystical heart of the music and the Wim Wenders documentary that PBS now presents no longer exists.
		The Buena Vista Social Club, the album and the film is the story of a remarkable re-living of the classic era of Cuban popular music, the resurrection of musical forms and personalities that have wielded an extraordinary influence over Western music.
		Arguably, Buena Vista is the crowning achievement, thus far, of the "world beat" era in both critical and commercial terms.
	www.pbs.org /buenavista/film/introduction.html (2110 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The original Buena Vista Social Club album was one of three projects recorded during the two-week session organized by World Circuit Records at EGREM Studios, Havana, Cuba, in March 1996.
		The Buena Vista Social Club was released in June 1997, and was well received by the critics, featuring in many best world, Latin and folk album polls for that year.
		A documentary film, Buena Vista Social Club, was made in 1999 by German director Wim Wenders and was shown in cinemas and on television throughout the world.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6204597 (554 words)

	village voice > film > Buena Vista Social Club: Cuban links by Richard Gehr
		Assembled in 1997 by guitarist Ry Cooder for Havana recording sessions, the Buena Vista Social Club is a stylish, distressed signifier for the nostalgic glories of prerevolutionary Cuban culture.
		Since nobody seems to know where the original Buena Vista Social Club was located (92-year-old, cigar-puffing string player Compay Segundo pokes around a Havana neighborhood for it in one amusing sequence), the film serves as a sentimental journey back into its heyday.
		Buena Vista Social Club makes a sharp turn when the band visits New York for a final proud and exciting concert at Carnegie Hall (I vividly recall 77-year-old pianist Ruben Gonzalez basking as long as possible in well-deserved adulation).
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9922/gehr.php (440 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What came across for me when I heard the album for the first time with no idea yet who these people really were, was a feeling of lightness, of sheer joy and carefree abandon.
		In 'Buena Vista Social Club' I rather tried to stay an objective observer, as much as that was possible.
		So we concentrated on the new album and the new songs that Ry, Hick, Jerry and Juan de Marco were recording at the EGREM studio, still with the same cast of musicians but with Ibrahim as the lead singer.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/BuenaVistaSC.html (2137 words)

	Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club to sing at Royce - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Buena Vista Social Club presents Orquesta Ibrahim Ferrer y Su Grupo at UCLA's Royce Hall Jan. 18 and 19.
		With the Grammy Award-winning album and the award-winning documentary by Wim Wenders in 1999, Ibrahim Ferrer, a singer, was one of the artists to receive long-awaited fame at age 72.
		Ferrer released his first self-titled album in 1999 and his second album is scheduled for release later this year.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=17951 (264 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club
		This album is blessed with some of the finest musicians in Cuba today - their dedication to the music and rapport with each other is unique in my experience.
		Buena Vista Social Club was recorded with Compay Segundo (vocals, guitar, congas), Eliades Ochoa (vocals, guitar), Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, bongos, clave), Ry Cooder (acoustic and electric slide guitars, guitar, oud, bolon, mbira, percussion), Ruben Gonzalez (piano).
		Buena Vista Social Club offers a panorama of son, trova and danzón [see Cuba Danzón '98 festival], including the number which lends its title to the CD, written by the legendary Orestes López, and "Pueblo Nuevo" (New People) by maestro Guillermo Rubalcaba.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /buenavista.html (1579 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club singer Ferrer dies - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among a group of older Cuban performers recruited by U.S. musician Ry Cooder, Ferrer performed on the "Buena Vista Social Club album" that won a Grammy in 1999, and was among those appearing in the film of the same name.
		Also in 1999, Ferrer was featured in one of a string of albums that followed, "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer," and won a Latin Grammy for best new artist in 2000.
		Originally from Cuba's eastern city of Santiago, Ferrer was born on Feb. 20, 1927, during a dance at a social club after his mother unexpectedly went into labor.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/08/07/buena_vista_social_club_singer_ferrer_dies?mode=PF (370 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Buena Vista Social Club, the new documentary directed by Wim Wenders and produced by guitarist Ry Cooder, begins with a search for old folks.
		From that early moment on, Buena Vista Social Club becomes far more than a documentary; it becomes both a seductive excavation of an extraordinary group of musicians long buried in the sounds of memory and a frayed postcard valentine to Havana, a city that Wenders calls "a disappearing beauty."
		What really got me there was Ry Cooder's enthusiasm for this music and the experience he had when he recorded the Buena Vista Social Club album and the way he was talking about it relentlessly and all the stories he told me about these guys.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/06/17/BUENA_VISTA_SOCIAL_CLUB.html (1276 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club
		The Buena Vista Social Club is the name the album released a couple of years ago by Ry Cooder and many forgotten Cuban musicians.
		The album went on to win a Grammy, and is still atop the best-selling list for world music.
		Cooder is primarily responsible for the movie and the album.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/buena_vista.html (394 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Buena Vista Social Club
		As a result, Buena Vista Social Club is a vital record that is simultaneously provocative and entertaining.
		Many albums feature artists performing these types of music, but one of the best is the first Buena Vista Social Club album.
		With their first album, however, he's brought the Buena Vista Social Club to the general public's attention after an absence of decades.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=15313565&srchTerms=075597947823&mediaType=-1&srchType=ISBN (976 words)

	The Phat Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Afro-Cuban All Stars album 'A toda Cuba le gusta' was an instant hit on its release in 1997, but the reaction to the Buena Vista Social Club release took everyone by surprise.
		The 1999 release 'The Buena Vista Social Club presents Ibrahim Ferrer' is both a follow-up to the Buena Vista Social Club album and a solo debut for Ferrer, erstwhile front man with past greats such as Orquesta Oriental Chepin and the musical giant Beny Moré.
		Since the heady years of 1997/8 life may have quietened down a little for those involved with the Buena Vista Social Club, though an excellent new Afro-Cuban All Stars release 'Distinto, diferente' was released to great acclaim in 1999.
	www.thephatplanet.com /buenavistasocialclub.htm (1851 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club @ Laugardalshöllin, Reykjavik : gig review
		The frail but still brilliant Ruben Gonzalez, the brazen Omara Portuondo and the spritely and unmissable Ibrahim Ferrer were the named stars; they've all released "solo" albums since the original album appeared and their energy and vibrancy continues through all of them.
		Gonzalez, helped onto the stage in front of an emotional audience who were for the most part looking honoured to be in the same room as the great pianist, was helped to his piano stool and then let his fingers fly all over the grand, quick-witted and brilliant despite his obvious discomfort.
		Fresh from his collaboration with Damon Albarn on the Gorillaz album, Ferrer is clearly revelling in finally being a star after decades of obscurity and offered us Dos Gardenias as a highlight of the evening; a more moving performance would be difficult to envisage.
	www.musicomh.com /gigs/buena-vista-social-club.htm (581 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Ibrahim Ferrer dies at 78
		Ibrahim Ferrer, who achieved fame late in life as the singer of the Buena Vista Social Club, died on Saturday in Havana at the age of 78.
		In 1997, Ferrer was one of a group of musicians brought together by the Texas guitarist Ry Cooder to record the Buena Vista Social Club album.
		Buena Vista guitarist, Manuel Galban, said of the famously mild-mannered Ferrer: "I felt like he was my brother.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1544678,00.html (406 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club : Buena Vista Social Club - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Buena Vista Social Club : Buena Vista Social Club
		This album is named after a members-only club that was opened in Havana in pre-Castro times, a period of unbelievable musical activity in Cuba.
		Many of the musicians on this album have been playing for more than a half century, and they sing and play with an obvious love for the material.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,304689,00.html (345 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club: Ibrahim Ferrer & Ruben Gonzalez in Concert: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, ...
		Sponsored by The Conga Room, Puffy’s chica loca, Jennifer Lopez, and Jimmy Smits (co-owners of the club) were there to support the event.
		This was a night of effusive joy for Gonzalez and Ferrer brought the house down from the moment they walked onstage.
		Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club
	www.plume-noire.com /music/live/buenavista.html (616 words)

	Music: Our Man in Havana (The Boston Phoenix . 01-12-98)
		Beginning with his earliest work back in the '60s, when he was a session player on Captain Beefheart's debut album and a guest on the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman," Cooder, one of the foremost blues players in rock of his generation, has been broadening his cultural horizons.
		Indeed it is. Buena Vista Social Club is a funky gem of an album.
		González was playing in social clubs because he was too poor to replace his piano, which fell apart several years ago.
	weeklywire.com /ww/01-12-98/boston_music_2.html (1753 words)

	Ry Cooder Bio - Buena Vista Social Club
		By March of 1996, when Ry Cooder arrived in Havana for what he thought would be sessions for a guitar-based tropical album featuring legendary Cuban and Malinese players (fate would have it that instead, Buena Vista happened), he'd already spent three decades on one of American music's most unusual and eclectic journeys.
		This is far different from the enduring American and European pop trait of the last few decades of appropriating the exotic, which, of course, makes of the whole endeavor a narrative not at all about who's being appropriated but rather all about who's doing the appropriating.
		In the brief introduction to The Buena Vista Social Club album, Cooder writes, "I felt that I had trained all my life for this and yet making this record was not what I expected in the 1990s.
	www.pbs.org /buenavista/music/ry_cooder_bio.html (770 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Buena Vista pianist Gonzalez dies
		Buena Vista founder and musician Ry Cooder described him as "the greatest piano soloist I have ever heard".
		Despite suffering from arthritis and not owning a piano at the time, he was said to be overjoyed, and every morning waited outside the studio before it opened.
		Released in 1998, The Buena Vista Social Club won global recognition and a Grammy for the veteran stars - known in Cuba as the super-abuelos (the super-grandfathers).
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3302471.stm (479 words)

	Grammy winning Cuban 'son' artist, Ibrahim Ferrer dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The month long Europe tour of Buena Vista Social Club’s famous voice and traditional Cuban music’s Grammy-award winning singer, Ibrahim Ferrer proved to be his last, as he died on Saturday of a heart attack, aged 78.
		Ferrer, from the east Cuban city of Santiago was born in 1927, literally with music in his blood, after being delivered on the floor of a social club, where his mother went into labor.
		Aged 70, Ferrer’s music was rediscovered in 1997, when Texan guitarist Ry Cooder brought together a group of musicians to record the Buena Vista Social Club album that sold over four million copies, winning worldwide acclaim and a Grammy in 1999, besides attracting the making of the Oscar nominated documentary by Wim Wenders.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/3751.html (768 words)

	Film: The Buena Vista Social Club
		The album, which highlighted the talents of such never-before-celebrated musical geniuses as 89-year-old Compay Segundo and 70-year-old Ibrahim Ferrer, became a sensation, winning a Grammy and selling over a million albums.
		Cooder was so taken with the album that he continued to record and perform with the Cubans, bringing them to North America on tour.
		The result is the documentary film version of The Buena Vista Social Club, 100 minutes of footage of the musicians in studio with Cooder and performing at Carnegie Hall.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/052799/film1.html (455 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trivia: The Buena Vista Social Club album was put together by guitarist Ry Cooder in 1997 as a means of recapturing the "lost" music of pre-revolutionary Havana.
		I wanted more of these musicians' stories and my favourite sequence was of the pianist playing in Havana and all these tiny little ballerinas dancing around him, caught up in the magic.
		More of the history of the Buena Vista Social Club would have been wonderful also - this was sad in its omission.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0186508 (366 words)

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