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 |
| 2.01 | Buena Vista Social Club (Israel López) | 5:59 |
| 2.02 | Dos Gardenias (Isolina Carillo) | 4:31 |
| 2.03 | Quizás, Quizás (listen to full-length track) (Osvaldo Farres) | 4:22 |
| 2.04 | Veinte Años (María Teresa Vera) | 4:07 |
| 3.01 | Orgullecida (Eliseo Silveira) | 3:18 |
| 3.02 | Y Tu Que Has Hecho? (Eusebio Delfín) | 3:34 |
| 3.03 | Siboney (Ernesto Lecuona) | 2:29 |
| 3.04 | Mandinga (Rodríguez Fiffe) | 5:30 |
| 3.05 | Almendra (Abelardito Valdés) | 5:49 |
| 4.01 | El Carretero (Guillermo Portabales) | 5:38 |
| 4.02 | Candela (listen to full-length track) (Faustino Oramas) | 7:00 |
| 4.03 | Silencio (Rafael Hernández) | 5:23 |
News & Reviews
- Thursday, November 6, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Buena Vista "Remains Potent Example of Cuban Music's Power and Reach"
Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall, the new two-CD recording of the unforgettable 1998 performance by the legendary Cuban group, is the subject of a feature in the Wall Street Journal, which calls the concert recording "another chapter in the success story" of the Buena Vista Social Club. "Countless bands have been promoted as 'the next Buena Vista Social Club,'" the article declares. "None have replicated the group's success ... Buena Vista Social Club remains a potent example of Cuban music's power and reach ..." Jazz.com calls the original album "an exceptional body of performances by smart and seasoned musicians who had spent a few collective centuries immersed in the aural traditions of their native country."
- Friday, October 31, 2008
Sun-Sentinal: Carnegie Hall Album Documents Buena Vista's "Virtuosity ... A Pleasure to Hear"; Perfect 10 from PopMatters
Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall earns a perfect 10 from PopMatters, which describes the songs on the original studio album as "polyrhythmic melting pots, rich harmonies, and pastoral Cuban melodies all encompassed by a tacit authenticity" and says the concert recording "staunchly carries with it the brand characteristics that launched this cultural exchange." The Sun-Sentinal says it "proves just how brilliant this ensemble was ... The Carnegie Hall concert is a document of that virtuosity, and a pleasure to hear."
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 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
