From All Music Guide: Group members: Ry Cooder; Omara Portuondo; Joachim Cooder; Julio Fernandez; Rubén González; Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez; Eliades Ochoa; Carlos González; Manuel "El Guajiro" Mirabal; Benito Suárez Magana; Julienne Oviedo Sánchez; Compay Segundo; Ibrahim Ferrer; Juan de Marcos González; Salvador Repilado Labrada; Manuel "Puntillita" Licea; Luis Barzaga; Lázaro Villa

Recording Info: Carnegie Hall

From All Music Guide: It seems very strange that World Circuit/Nonesuch would wait ten long years to issue this historic document of the grand, wildly celebrated Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall. This is the very show so wonderfully and artfully detailed by filmmaker Wim Wenders in his documentary on the project that reunited these then-obscure Cuban music legends for an album and a tour and catapulted them to worldwide fame. Perhaps it was worth the wait; perhaps this music should have been in our midst all along. Of the four older legends, those who had made music together in Cuba before Castro, only Omara Portuondo remains on the Earth, and she is still quite active. The other three, vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, pianist Rubén González, and guitarist and vocalist Compay Segundo, have passed away -- Segundo lived to be 96! The youngster of the group, guitarist Eliades Ochoa, continues to record and tour.

One thing the music on this lavishly packaged double-disc set does accomplish, however, i...

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