Buena Vista Social Club (album)

In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder was invited to Havana by British world music producer Nick Gold of World Circuit Records to record a session in which two African highlife musicians from Mali were to collaborate with Cuban musicians.[https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/musicians/bios/cooder_int_2_excerpts.html "Interview with Ry Cooder" in Los Angeles, by Betty Arcos, host, "The Global Village", Pacifica Radio, June 27, 2000] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925053612/https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/musicians/bios/cooder_int_2_excerpts.html |date=September 25, 2021 }}. Buena Vista Social Club site. PBS.org. Retrieved March 18, 2007. When Cooder arrived (via Mexico to avoid the ongoing U.S. trade and travel embargo against Cuba),[https://web.archive.org/web/20071112034518/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/1997/06/28/brcuba28.xml "Hurricane Cooder hits Cuba"]. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved March 20, 2007 it was found that the musicians from Africa had not received their visas and were unable to come. Cooder and Gold changed their plans and decided to record an album of Cuban son music with local musicians instead. Cuban musicians already involved in the African collaboration project included bassist Orlando "Cachaito" López, guitarist Eliades Ochoa and musical director Juan de Marcos González, who had himself been organizing a similar project for the Afro-Cuban All Stars. A search for additional musicians led the team to singer Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, pianist Rubén González, trumpeter Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal and octogenarian singer Compay Segundo, who all agreed to record for the project.

Cooder, Gold and de Marcos organized a large group of performers (twenty are credited) and arranged recording sessions at Havana's EGREM Studios, formerly owned by RCA records, where the equipment and atmosphere had remained unchanged since the 1950s.[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,999073,00.html Compay Segundo Obituary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516134159/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,999073,00.html |date=May 16, 2007 }} Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved March 18, 2007. Communication between the Spanish and English speakers at the studio was conducted via an interpreter, although Cooder reflected that "musicians understand each other through means other than speaking".

The album contained fourteen tracks and was recorded in six days. It opened with "Chan Chan" written by Compay Segundo, a four-chord son (Dm, F, Gm, A7) that was to become what Cooder described as "the Buena Vista's calling card";[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,999647,00.html "Life began at ninety"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112084516/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,999647,00.html |date=November 12, 2007 }} Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved March 18, 2007. and ending with a rendition of "La bayamesa", a traditional Cuban patriotic song (not to be confused with the Cuban national anthem of the same name).[http://www.lajiribilla.co.cu/2003/n103_04/aprende.html Las Bayamesas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206013710/http://www.lajiribilla.co.cu/2003/n103_04/aprende.html |date=February 6, 2012 }}. La Jiribilla magazine. Juventud Rebelde. Retrieved March 18, 2007. "Desde finales de la segunda década del siglo pasado hasta nuestros días, no hay dudas de que en Bayamo se han escrito otras hermosas e importantes obras musicales, que podrían también llamarse bayamesas. Nadie puede negar sin embargo que las tres primeras bayamesas, compuestas ente 1851 y 1918, precisamente en un período rotundo de afirmación de nuestra identidad nacional, son parte entrañable del patrimonio de la nación cubana."
Translation: "From the end of the 1910s to the present day, there is no doubt that in Bayamo, beautiful and important music has been written that could also be called Bayamesas. Nobody can deny, nevertheless, that the first three Bayamesas, composed between 1851 and 1918 in a period of strong affirmation of our national identity, are an integral part of Cuban patriotism." The sessions also produced material for the subsequent release Introducing...Rubén González which showcased the work of the Cuban pianist. Among the songs left off the album were the classic bolero-son "Lágrimas negras", which was deemed too popular for inclusion, and Compay Segundo's "Macusa". Both songs were later released on the compilation Lost and Found.{{cite web |url=http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/buena-vista-social-club-lost-and-found-previously-unreleased-march-24-2015-02-03 |title=Buena Vista Social Club's "Lost and Found," Collection of Previously Unreleased Tracks, Due March 23 |date=3 February 2015 |website=Nonesuch Records |access-date=13 May 2015 |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518072506/http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/buena-vista-social-club-lost-and-found-previously-unreleased-march-24-2015-02-03 |url-status=live }}

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The majority of the album comprised standards of the trova and filin repertoire, namely sones, guajiras and boleros typically played by small guitar-led ensembles. A foremost example of the son tradition on the album was "Chan Chan", the group's signature tune and the album opener. Written in the 1980s, it was one of Compay Segundo's most famous songs and one he had recorded several times, most notably with Eliades Ochoa and his Cuarteto Patria. The same formula was followed in this recording, with Ochoa singing lead and Segundo on second voice (as his artist name indicated). The song's lyrics depicted a rural scene with two characters, Juanita and Chan Chan.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/chan_chan.html |title=Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club |publisher=PBS.org|access-date=2013-07-23}} "Chan Chan" was followed by "De camino a la vereda", another son, written and sung by Ibrahim Ferrer.

Another example of the son cubano was Sergio González Siaba's "El cuarto de Tula", sung by Eliades Ochoa, with Ibrahim Ferrer and Manuel "Puntillita" Licea joining Ochoa in an extended descarga (jam) section improvising lyrics. Barbarito Torres played a frenetic laúd solo towards the end of the track. Timbales were played by 13-year-old Yulién Oviedo Sánchez. The song was featured in the 2001 film Training Day.{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/el_cuarto_de_tula.html |title=El cuarto de Tula |publisher=PBS.org |access-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-date=October 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007184221/https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/el_cuarto_de_tula.html |url-status=live }} "Candela" was another classic son, composed by Faustino Oramas "El Guayabero". Its lyrics, rich with sexual innuendo, were sung by Ibrahim Ferrer, who improvised vocal lines throughout the track, and the whole ensemble performed an extended descarga.{{cite web|last1=Cooder|first1=Ry|title=Buena Vista Social Club – PDF Album Notes|url=http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/index.php?detectflash=false#BUENA_VISTA_SOCIAL_CLUB::BUENA_VISTA_SOCIAL_CLUB::extras|website=World Circuit Records|access-date=16 April 2017|language=en|archive-date=May 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514143052/http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/index.php?detectflash=false#BUENA_VISTA_SOCIAL_CLUB::BUENA_VISTA_SOCIAL_CLUB::extras|url-status=live}}

Of the many boleros featured in the album, Isolina Carrillo's "Dos gardenias" was perhaps the most famous, sung here by Ibrahim Ferrer. Carrillo wrote the song in 1945 and it became a huge success in Cuba and abroad. The song was chosen for the album after Cooder heard Ferrer and Rubén González improvising the melody before a recording session. Ferrer had learned the song while playing with Cuban bandleader Beny Moré.{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/dos_gardenias.html |title=Dos gardenias |publisher=PBS.org |access-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-date=January 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109032208/http://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/dos_gardenias.html |url-status=live }} Another bolero, "¿Y tú qué has hecho?" was written by Eusebio Delfín in the 1920s and featured Compay Segundo on tres and vocals. Segundo was traditionally a "second voice" singer providing a baritone counterpoint harmony. On this recording he multitracked both voices. The song also featured a duet between Segundo on tres and Ry Cooder on guitar.{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/y_tu_que.html |title=Y Tu Que Has Hecho? - Buena Vista Social Club |publisher=PBS.org |access-date=2013-07-23 |archive-date=October 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020083808/https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/y_tu_que.html |url-status=live }} "Veinte años", also a bolero, was sung by the only female vocalist in the ensemble, Omara Portuondo, with Segundo on second vocals.{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/viente_anos.html |title=Veinte años |publisher=PBS.org |access-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107175913/http://www.pbs.org/buenavista/music/songs/viente_anos.html |url-status=live }} It was recorded in one take after Omara had finished her own recording sessions at EGREM studios and was preparing to fly to Vietnam.{{cite web |last1=Culshaw |first1=Peter |title=Omara Portuondo 85th Anniversary |url=https://www.globalartslive.org/sites/default/files/Biography_84.pdf |website=Montuno |access-date=7 June 2021 |date=2016 |archive-date=June 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607212322/https://www.globalartslive.org/sites/default/files/Biography_84.pdf |url-status=live }} Other boleros included were Rafael Ortiz's "Amor de loca juventud", Eliseo Silveira's "Orgullecida" (both sung by Compay Segundo) and Electo Rosell's "Murmullo" (sung by Ibrahim Ferrer, who used to be the lead vocalist in Rosell's ensemble Orquesta Chepín-Chovén).

"El carretero", a guajira (country lament), was sung by Eliades Ochoa with the full ensemble providing additional instruments and backing vocals. "La bayamesa", a famous criolla by Sindo Garay, was the album closer with Puntillita, Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer on vocals.

Two tracks were included from the Cuban danzón repertoire, "Pueblo Nuevo" and "Buena Vista Social Club", both dedicated to locations in Havana. They were originally recorded by Arcaño y sus Maravillas and were composed by bass player Cachao (although "Buena Vista Social Club" has been wrongly attributed to his brother Orestes López in the liner notes and by Cooder).{{cite web|last1=Díaz Ayala|first1=Cristóbal|title=Afro-Cuban All Stars / Buena Vista Social Club|url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION01A.pdf|website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960|publisher=Florida International University Libraries|access-date=28 March 2015|date=Fall 2013|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925025714/http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION01A.pdf|url-status=live}} The title track, highlighting the piano work of Rubén González, was recorded after Cooder heard González improvising around the tune's musical theme before a day's recording session. After playing the tune, González explained to Cooder the history of the social club and that the song was the club's "mascot tune". When searching for a name for the overall project, manager Nick Gold chose the song's title. According to Cooder,

It should be the thing that sets it apart. It was a kind of club by then. Everybody was hanging out and we had rum and coffee around two in the afternoon. It felt like a club, so let's call it that. That's what gave it a handle.

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| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3score = B+{{cite web |author=Dimitri Ehrlich |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,289660,00.html |title=Buena Vista Social Club Review |publisher=EW.com |date=1997-10-03 |access-date=2013-07-23 |archive-date=October 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007210149/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,289660,00.html |url-status=dead }}

| rev4 = Rolling Stone

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| rev5 = Uncut

| rev5Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Willaimson |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Williamson |date=September 1997 |title=Cuba libre! |magazine=Uncut |page=80 |issue=4}}

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Buena Vista Social Club earned considerable critical praise from music writers and publications.{{cite book| author = Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard| title = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition| publisher = Simon and Schuster| year = 2004| isbn = 0-7432-0169-8| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac}} In 2003, the album was ranked number 260 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[https://web.archive.org/web/20070328233311/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626032/260_buena_vista_social_club RS500: Buena Vista Social Club]. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on February 9, 2009. one of only two albums on the list to be produced in a non-English speaking country. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.{{cite book|author1=Robert Dimery|author2=Michael Lydon|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition|date=23 March 2010|publisher=Universe|isbn=978-0-7893-2074-2}}

The album was awarded the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album and Tropical/Salsa Album of the Year by a Group at the 1998 Billboard Latin Music Awards.{{cite web |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/grammys.htm |title=40th Annual Grammy Awards – 1998 |publisher=Rock On The Net |date=February 25, 1998 |access-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002034928/http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/grammys.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine| last = Cantor| first = Judy| date = April 18, 1998| title = Latino Artists Honored With Billboard Awards| magazine = Billboard| publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc.| volume = 110| issue = 16| page = 77| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77| access-date = June 4, 2010| archive-date = October 7, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221007184223/https://books.google.com/books?id=mQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77| url-status = live}}

In 2022, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.{{cite web |title=National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin, Journey and More in 2022 |url=https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-music-from-alicia-keys--ricky-martin--journey-and-more-in-2022/s/fee30140-0454-401c-a2a2-205298e32fb1 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413140826/https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-music-from-alicia-keys--ricky-martin--journey-and-more-in-2022/s/fee30140-0454-401c-a2a2-205298e32fb1 |url-status=live }}

In 2024, it was ranked in eleventh position on the “Los 600 de Latinoamérica” list compiled by a collective of music journalists from several countries of the Americas, curating the top 600 Latin American albums from 1920-2022.[https://www.600discoslatam.com/discos/brasil/acabou-chorare-novos-baianos/ Los 600 de Latinoamérica]

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| title1 = Chan Chan

| writer1 = Compay Segundo

| length1 = 4:16

| title2 = De camino a la vereda

| writer2 = Ibrahim Ferrer

| length2 = 5:03

| title3 = El cuarto de Tula

| writer3 = Sergio González Siaba

| length3 = 7:27

| title4 = Pueblo Nuevo

| writer4 = Israel "Cachao" López

| length4 = 6:05

| title5 = Dos gardenias

| writer5 = Isolina Carrillo

| length5 = 3:02

| title6 = ¿Y tú qué has hecho?

| writer6 = Eusebio Delfín

| length6 = 3:13

| title7 = Veinte años

| writer7 = María Teresa Vera

| length7 = 3:29

| title8 = El carretero

| writer8 = Guillermo Portabales

| length8 = 3:28

| title9 = Candela

| writer9 = Faustino Oramas

| length9 = 5:27

| title10 = Amor de loca juventud

| writer10 = Rafael Ortiz

| length10 = 3:21

| title11 = Orgullecida

| writer11 = Eliseo Silveira

| length11 = 3:18

| title12 = Murmullo

| writer12 = Electo "Chepín" Rosell

| length12 = 3:50

| title13 = Buena Vista Social Club

| writer13 = Israel "Cachao" López

| length13 = 4:50

| title14 = La bayamesa

| writer14 = Sindo Garay

| length14 = 2:54

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• Eliades Ochoa – vocals (1, 3, 8, 9), guitar (1, 3, 8, 9, 11)
• Compay Segundo – backing vocals (1), congas (1), guitar (2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14), vocals (6, 7, 10, 11, 14)
• Ibrahim Ferrer – backing vocals (1, 8), vocals (2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 14), conga (4), clave (6, 13), bongos (10)
• Ry Cooder – guitars (1–7, 11–13), mbira (2, 8), oud (8), bolon (8), floor slide (8), percussion (8), acoustic slide guitar (9), electric slide guitar (9), slide guitar (10)
• Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal – trumpet (1–5, 9, 11)
• Orlando "Cachaito" López – bass (1–9, 11–14)
• Carlos Gonzáles – bongos (1, 3, 9), cowbell (3, 9)
• Alberto Valdés – maracas (1–9, 12, 13), backing vocals (2), chorus vocals (3, 9)
• Joachim Cooder – udu drum (1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13), dumbek (2, 3, 6, 7, 9–11), conga (3), drums (11)
• Barbarito Torres – laoud (2, 3, 11)
• Manuel Licea – backing vocals (2), vocals (3, 14), chorus vocals (9), congas (13)
• Juan de Marcos González – backing vocals (2, 8), conductor (3, 9), güiro (8), chorus vocals (9)
• Luis Barzaga – backing vocals (2), chorus vocals (3, 9)
• Julienne Oviedo Sánchez – timbales (3)
• Rubén González (pianist) – piano (4, 5, 6, 11–14)
• Lázaro Villa – güiro (4, 13), congas (5, 12)
• Omara Portuondo – vocals (7)
• Julio Alberto Fernández – vocals (10), maracas (10)
• Benito Suárez Magana – guitar (10)
• Salvador Repilado Labrada – bass (10)

As of 2020, the album had sold over 8 million copies.{{cite magazine |last1=Cantor-Navas |first1=Judy |title=How World Circuit's Nick Gold Helped Lead the Buena Vista Social Club Label's Revival Via BMG |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9323506/how-world-circuits-nick-gold-helped-lead-the-buena-vista-social-club-labels-revival-via-bmg |magazine=Billboard |access-date=10 October 2021 |date=26 February 2020 |archive-date=October 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010125444/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9323506/how-world-circuits-nick-gold-helped-lead-the-buena-vista-social-club-labels-revival-via-bmg |url-status=live }} and is considered one of the most best-selling Latin albums of all time worldwide. [https://bestsellingalbums.org/artist/1907 BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB by BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB sales and awards

Buena Vista Social Club achieved considerable sales in Europe, reaching the Top 10 in several countries, including Germany where it topped the charts, as well as the US, where it reached number 80 on the Billboard 200. In 2009, it was awarded a double platinum certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 1,000,000 copies throughout Europe.{{Cite web |url=http://www.impalamusic.org/arc_static/docum/04-press/2009/PR%20-%2020091006.htm |title=Color |access-date=August 24, 2017 |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824175720/http://www.impalamusic.org/arc_static/docum/04-press/2009/PR%20-%2020091006.htm |url-status=dead }} {{As of|2017|10}}, it is the second bestselling Latin album in the United States after Dreaming of You (1995) by Selena.{{cite magazine|last1=Estevez|first1=Marjua|title=The Top 25 Biggest Selling Latin Albums of the Last 25 Years: Selena, Shakira & More|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8005603/selena-quintanilla-top-selling-latin-albums-ranking-25-years|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=October 18, 2017|date=October 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017153546/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8005603/selena-quintanilla-top-selling-latin-albums-ranking-25-years|archive-date=October 17, 2017}}

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A stage musical adaptation of the album and focusing on the history and performers of the group was staged Off-Broadway in 2023.{{cite web | url=https://atlantictheater.org/production/buena-vista-social-club/ | title=Buena Vista Social Club™ }}

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• [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20050907113021/http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/#Buena_Vista_Social_Club Official Buena Vista Social Club website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060216162834/http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/1998/07/16feature.html Article about Buena Vista Social Club in Salon]

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