Ever since hearing the trumpet playing of Alfredo 'Chocolate' Armenteros in NYC in my youth I have been partial to a little cuban music now and again. Some 50 years after the Buena Vista Social Club closed it's doors in Havana, that far sighted and entertaining musician Ry Cooder in partnership with Nick Gold travelled to Cuba and recorded an album with Cuban musicians that reflected the glory days of the Buena Vista Club in 1950's Cuba. This went on to become a world wide known album and a few years after the album release the German film director Wim Wender, made a documentary film of the Buena Vista Club performers.
Tomorrow night (Sunday 28th Feb) at the London Palladium the Pasion De Buena Vista is visiting and putting on a show. Now this has little to do with the original line up of the Buena Vista Club. After all a number of those musicians might well have died since that album was recorded. But none the less the show features musicians and dancers from Cuba and it's got to be a reasonable night out, surely? A dear friend of mine has secured tickets and I look forward to attending.
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