The two new Cooder Cuban CD releases arrived together ... Ibrahim Ferrer's and Cachaito Lopez's solo albums. And also elevation to the pantheon of Ry Cooder musical classics, for his guitar ...

The Cuban Connection In 1996 Cooder went to Cuba ... The thing you're not likely to see is an old-fashioned Ry Cooder album. The last one to carry just his name was 1987's "Get Rhythm," and ...

With the success of the Cuban recordings, this would have seemed an opportunity for Cooder to do an album completely his ... Back in time, to Chavez Ravine Ry Cooder is at work on still another ...

WASHINGTON — Musician Ry Cooder, who was once ... and recording such aging Cuban virtuosos as Ibrahim Ferrer, who starred on the first “Buena Vista” album. In August, the government said ...

Ry Cooder's name has become synonymous with Cuban music since he produced the ... fusion of two cultures and two generations. Their new album is entitled Mambo Sinuendo.

Most notably, he brought traditional Cuban music to the ears of millions with 1997's ... in the 1950s in the name of 'development' (you may have noticed by now that Ry Cooder albums don’t tend to be ...

Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance ... In a series of albums he recorded during the '70s and '80s, Cooder fused folkloric musical ideas with rock sensibilities in a unique blend ...

The "Buena Vista Social Club" musical is based on the Cuban musicians who came together ... Nick Gold and American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder. Their journey was also documented in an ...

While his own recordings have taken an unexpected literary turn, guitarist-musicologist Ry Cooder ... The last time Cooder did this he made million-sellers out of the swinging Cuban octogenarians ...

We remember Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who died Saturday in Havana at age 78 from multiple organ failure. We present an interview with Ry Cooder, who produced the Grammy-winning 1997 album Buena ...

Two decades ago Ry Cooder and Nick Gold produced a series of recordings with long-forgotten veterans of Cuban music under ... Next to Ferrer’s superb 2003 album Buenos Hermanos, my favorite ...