 | Buena Vista Social Club [Read More ...]
Description: Ry Cooder's name has helped bring attention to this session, but it's the veteran Cuban son musicians who make this album really special. Reminiscent of Ellington in its scope and sense of hushed romanticism, Buena Vista Social Club is that rare meld of quietude and intensity; wh... |
 | Calle Salud [Read More ...]
Description: With age-defying suppleness, Cuban vocalist (and nonagenarian) Compay Segundo helped supercharge the 1997 smash Buena Vista Social Club and, in 1998, his own Lo Mejor de la Vida with his full-bodied voice. Calle Salud, then, comes in 1999 on the tail of both artistic and commerci... |
 | Cien Años: 100th Birthday Celebration [Read More ...]
Description: 2007 two CD celebrating the life and music of the late, great Cuban musician, released on what would have been his 100th birthday. Long before his star turn on 1997's Buena Vista Social Club album and documentary, guitarist and songwriter Compay Segundo (born Maximo Francisco Rep... |
 | Lo Mejor de la Vida [Read More ...]
Description: The 90-year-old Cuban guitarist and singer introduced to much of the world on Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, is back with his own album. While Segundo uses his own group here, the disc has the same combination of delicate acoustic guitars, complex Afrocaribbean rhythms, and... |
 | Nochebuena en la Habana [Read More ...]
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 | Gracias Compay: The Definitive Collection [Read More ...]
Description: Until his Death in 2003, at the Age of 95, Compay Segundo was One of the Last Treasures of Cuba. Rediscovered in the 1990's Through the Buena Vista Social Club, He was Awarded a Grammy in 1998 and Toured the World's Most Important Venues. A Summary of the Most Successful Part of ... |
 | The Essential Compay Segundo [Read More ...]
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 | Las Flores de la Vida [Read More ...]
Description: At 93, the man who came to international fame with Buena Vista Social Club is making some of the most celebratory music of his career. And some of the most adventurous, arranging his distinctive son forms for a band that, unusually, includes clarinets. Nor does he need to be fron... |
 | Duets [Read More ...]
Description: The magnetic, ninetysomething Francisco Repilado, better known as Compay Segundo, recorded the first 78 rpm discs in Cuba in the 1930s with his seven-stringed armónico/tres guitar. After decades of obscurity following the 1959 revolution, guitarist-producer Ry Cooder catapu... |
 | Mas Respeto [Read More ...]
Prodisc presents the 'Golden Cuba' series. 'Mas respeto' is all of the best music from Cuba. |
 | Compay, Compay [Read More ...]
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 | Oye! The Best of Cuban Music [Read More ...]
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 | Las Flores de la Vida [Read More ...]
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 | Lo Mejor de la Vida [Read More ...]
Description: The 90-year-old Cuban guitarist and singer introduced to much of the world on Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, is back with his own album. While Segundo uses his own group here, the disc has the same combination of delicate acoustic guitars, complex Afrocaribbean rhythms, and... |
![]() | Feliz Cumpleaños a Compay Segundo [Read More ...]
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 | Ochoa y Segundo [Read More ...]
Description: Cuban-born Vocalist and Guitarist Eliades Ochoa Has a Long History in Cuba for Having Played with So Many Groups. The Same Can Be Said About Compay Segundo who Both have Been Recently Thrust Into the Global Spotlight by their Participation on 'buena Vista Social Club'. Together w... |
![]() | Balcon de Santiago [Read More ...]
Review: Classic Cuban "guajira" music from the 'Fifties:AWESOME. If you discovered Compay Segundo through the Buena Vista Social Club, you'll love these vintage recordings, made in 1956-57, after he had left the Duo Los Compadres. Great stuff, with irresistible melodies and marvellous ... |
 | El Compadre Again [Read More ...]
Description: Compay Segundo was an essential fixture in the sound of pre-revolutionary Cuban music. He developed a distinctive son style, mixing harder African rhythms with Spanish lyricism. He even invented a unique 7-string guitar called an armonica. He was honored with a Grammy as part of ... |
![]() | Feliz Cumpleanos a Compay Segundo [Read More ...]
This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francisco Repilado, known as Compay Segundo, who died in 2003 after achieving worldwide fame with Buena Vista Social Club. |
