Simply Cuba

Simply Cuba

Simply Cuba

Simply Cuba

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Overview

Simply Cuba is a four-disc box set from England that provides a deeper look at recordings made by the artists now associated forever with Buena Vista Social Club, many cut before that project was a twinkle in producer Ry Cooder's eye. The tracks here by such Cuban now-legends as Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo and Ruben Gonzalez, as well as other Cubans who had nothing to do with BVSC (such as the great Beny More), date from the '50s into the '90s, and therefore the sound quality and styles vary wildly from track to track. But the music, taken from original Cuban Egrem label recordings, is consistently strong, divvied up for convenience into themes titled Cuba Romantica, Cuba Danceria, Los Soneros, and Las Senoras. Those categories are self-explanatory and give the recordings some consistency and flow, but there is enough crossover (Ferrer and Portuondo each appear on three of the discs, for example) to render the sectioning moot to some extent. ~ Jeff Tamarkin

Product Details

Release Date: 10/07/2016
Label: Imports
UPC: 4050538212259

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ibrahim Ferrer   Primary Artist
Conjunto Bolero   Primary Artist
Conjunto Son 14   Primary Artist
Generoso "El Tojo" Jimenez   Primary Artist
Elena Burke   Primary Artist
Eliades Ochoa   Primary Artist
Celeste Mendoza   Primary Artist
Los Papines   Primary Artist
Orquesta Riverside   Primary Artist
Septeto Turquino   Primary Artist
Teresa Garcia Caturla   Primary Artist
Orquesta Aragon   Primary Artist
Omara Portuondo   Primary Artist
Adalberto Alvarez y Su Son   Primary Artist
Duo los Compadres   Primary Artist
Ruben Gonzalez   Primary Artist
Estrellas de Chocolate   Primary Artist
Estrellas de Areito   Primary Artist
Orquesta Aliamen   Primary Artist
Compay Segundo   Primary Artist
Grupo Manguare   Primary Artist
Ruben Gonzales   Primary Artist
Cuarteto Las d'Aida   Primary Artist
Beny More   Primary Artist
Issac Delgado   Primary Artist
Chepin Y Su Orquesta Oriental   Primary Artist
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