This album might have been made to jump on the Buena Vista Social Club bandwagon,
but it's one of those rare imitations that takes on a life of its own. Singer Luis Frank, the mastermind behind it, is a young ...
It seems strange that Blue Note, a label generally associated with bop, hard bop, and
the early avant-garde, would have released an album like Solomon Ilori's African High Life. It doesn't really fit in with Blue Note's back catalog and ...
Perhaps an early response to the success of the Buena Vista Social Club, Wayne Gorbea
and his group, Salsa Picante, were finally signed to a nationwide label to record the hot Afro-Cuban collection Cogele el Gusto, a very similar blend ...
It's hard to believe that it took Nick Gold and his World Circuit team to
plunder the vaults for unreleased Buena Vista Social Club recordings. This loose-knit group of all-but-forgotten all-star musicians from pre-Revolutionary Havana was assembled by Juan de ...