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Mp3s: Buena Vista Social Club, 2010 Cuban jazz

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July 15, 2011 4:50 am
By Sheila Lennon

BVSCdonauFrs.jpgBUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB - GERMANY 2010
Jazz At The Danube Festival 2010 [no label, 2CD]
Live in Straubing, Bavaria, Germany; July 16, 2010. Excellent FM broadcast.

On July 7, 2011, Cuban guitarist and composer, Los Zafiros band member, Buena Vista Social Club collaborator and Grammy winner Manuel Galban died in a Havana hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest. Galban was 80.

While there is always sadness in death, listening to the music of the Buena Vista Social Club, one can only experience the celebration of life... for there is no other way.

survivor69 noted: "Long missing some of the bigger names as Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González or Orlando "Cachaito" López, they're still exporting their mix of salsas and rumbas or whatever with no big differences from the earlier years. Radio engineers decided to record this show leaving a full crowd presence, so to seem almost an audience recording."



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