Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1.01 | Chan Chan (Francisco Repilado) | 4:46 |
| 1.02 | De Camino a la Vereda (Ibrahim Ferrer) | 4:49 |
| 1.03 | El Cuarto de Tula (Sergio Siaba) | 8:11 |
| 1.04 | La Engañadora (Enrique Jorrín) | 2:44 |
| 1.05 | Buena Vista Social Club (Israel López) | 5:59 |
| 1.06 | Dos Gardenias (Isolina Carillo) | 4:31 |
| 1.07 | Quizás, Quizás (listen to full-length track) (Osvaldo Farres) | 4:22 |
| 1.08 | Veinte Años (María Teresa Vera) | 4:07 |
| 2.01 | Orgullecida (Eliseo Silveira) | 3:18 |
| 2.02 | Y Tu Que Has Hecho? (Eusebio Delfín) | 3:34 |
| 2.03 | Siboney (Ernesto Lecuona) | 2:29 |
| 2.04 | Mandinga (Rodríguez Fiffe) | 5:30 |
| 2.05 | Almendra (Abelardito Valdés) | 5:49 |
| 2.06 | El Carretero (Guillermo Portabales) | 5:38 |
| 2.07 | Candela (listen to full-length track) (Faustino Oramas) | 7:00 |
| 2.08 | Silencio (Rafael Hernández) | 5:23 |
News & Reviews
- Monday, January 5, 2009
Nonesuch Artists Continue to Draw Year-End Accolades
Since the last Nonesuch Journal entry of 2008, which laid out scores of year-end best-of lists featuring Nonesuch albums and artists, still more critical praise has come in placing this music among the year's best.
- Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Nonesuch Albums Abound in Year-End Best Lists
While 2008 may go down as one of the more turbulent years in recent (or distant) memory, or, more optimistically, a time of change, there is much to celebrate in the year in music. Nonesuch artists across all genres have contributed to that and, accordingly, have made their way onto many critics' lists of the year's best. For the final Nonesuch Journal article of the year, we offer an overview of just some of that year-end critical praise.
About this Album
"The concert was more than a musical occasion. Musicians from Cuba in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, some emerging from retirement, were making their United States debuts at no less than Carnegie Hall. With the bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero, the Buena Vista Social Club simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of its musicians and mourned the era they embody." —New York Times
Buena Vista Social Club, the Grammy Award–winning 1997 World Circuit / Nonesuch Records album produced by Ry Cooder, is the biggest-selling world music album ever, with more than eight million records sold to date. The Cuban musicians from the album played a sold-out, one-night-only concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall on July 1, 1998. That show became the climax of the acclaimed 1999 Wim Wenders documentary about the musicians, also called Buena Vista Social Club.
Ten years later, World Circuit / Nonesuch Records release that evening’s performance as Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall—meticulously mixed and mastered by Cooder and World Circuit label head Nick Gold (who executive produced the 1997 album). It features performances by the original Buena Vista Social Club musicians including Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Cachaíto López, and Guajiro Mirabal. Though all of these musicians subsequently went on to resurrect great solo careers, the intervening years have brought the loss of Ferrer, Segundo, and González. Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall is only the second release for the original members.
A popular song from the original Buena Vista Social Club album, “Chan Chan,” opened the Carnegie Hall show and is also available in the Nonesuch Store as a single. As the Los Angeles Times reported in its 1998 Carnegie Hall review, “When the musicians finally walked on stage, the crowd stood and cheered, then erupted at the opening strains of ‘Chan Chan,’ much as a rock audience does on hearing a band’s biggest hit.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Octavio Calderón, trumpet
Joachim Cooder, drums, percussion
Ry Cooder, guitars
Angel “Terry” Domech, congas
Ibrahim Ferrer, vocals
Roberto García, bongos, cowbell, güiro
Hugo Garzón, vocals
Juan de Marcos González, bandleader, coro, güiro,
Rubén González, piano
Pío Leyva, vocals
Manuel “Puntillita” Licea, vocals
Orlando “Cachaíto” López, bass
Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal, trumpet
Eliades Ochoa, guitar, vocals
Omara Portuondo, vocals
Jesús “Aguaje” Ramos, bandleader for Rubén González, trombone
Salvador Repilado, bass
Compay Segundo, guitar, vocals
Benito Suárez Magana, guitar
Barbarito Torres, laoud
Alberto “Virgilio” Valdés, maracas, coro
Amadito Valdés, timbales
PRODUCTION CREDITS
A World Circuit Production
Produced by Ry Cooder
Executive and additional production by Nick Gold
Recorded on July 1, 1998, at Carnegie Hall, New York
Recorded by Jerry Boys with John Harris, Randy Ezratty, and John Bates of Effanel Music
Mixed by Martin Pradler
Mixed at Bay 7 Studios, Valley Village, California
Assistant Mix Engineer Joshua Smith
Mastered by Bernie Grundman, Los Angeles
Cover by Jon Smith and iwant Design
Artwork by iwant Design
Photography by Jon Smith, Susan Titelman, Donata Wenders
