Product Description
Buena Vista Social Club, the Grammy Award-winning 1997 World Circuit 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. The footage of that show became the climax of the acclaimed 1999 Wim Wenders documentary about the musicians and their compelling story, also called Buena Vista Social Club. Ten years later, that evening's historic performance is released by World Circuit 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, Ruben 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, whose legendary studio album became a phenomenon throughout the world.
This is a must buy for any record collection.
