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Recorded at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba, April 1996. Includes liner notes by Nigel Williamson and Ruben Gonzalez. Personnel: Ruben Gonzalez (piano); Juan De Marcos Gonzalez (conductor, vocals); Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, Antonio "Maceo" ... Full DescriptionRodriguez (vocals); Richard Egues (flute); Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet); Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez (bass); Roberto Garcia (bongos, guiro, cowbell); Amadito Valdes (timbales); Carlos Gonzalez (congas); Alberto "Virgilio" Valdes (maracas); Carlos Puisseaux (guiro).
Hide Description Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez Music | List Price | $18.98 (You save $4.09) | | Category | World Albums, Jazz CDs, International, Latin, Cuban, Latin Jazz, Cuban Son | | Label | Nonesuch | | Orig Year | 1997 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2469  | | CD Universe Part number | 1242982 | | Catalog number | 79477 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 16, 1997 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Nick Gold | | Engineer | Jerry Boys | | Personnel | Ruben Gonzalez - piano
Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal - trumpet
Alberto "Virgilio" Valdes - maracas
Juan De Marcos Gonzalez - conductor, vocals
Manuel Puntillita Licea
Amadito Valdes - timbales
Carlos Gonzalez - congas
Roberto Garcia - bongos, guiro, cowbell
Richard Egues - flute
Carlos Puisseaux - guiro
Antonio "Maceo" Rodriguez - vocals
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Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez Songs Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  wonderful genius
Wonderful cd, all my friends say it's a nice cd to have.Buy it quickly.
Submitted by G.LUREL (GUADELOUPE FWI) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Reuben Gonzalez Piano Magic
Wow- This is one of the finest Cuban music CDs I have heard, ranks up there with Buena Vista Social Club CD, Omara Portuondo, etc. Great improvisation, nice variety of Cuban/Latin piano music with rythmic accompaniment, not too jazzy. A warm afternoon, good barbecue, a cold Pacifico, a good cigar, throw in Gonzalez' piano music- doesn't get any better! You'll think you're in Cabo or Havana....
Bill G.
Submitted by shipguy (Roseburg OR, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No The old dude can PLAY!!!
One of the best CDs of 1996.After listening to this incredible music,I am a fired up Reuben Gonzalez fan(bought about six copies of this CD for friends and family.) Any man that can throw in a hint of Tchaikovski`s 1st piano concerto into a passionate and melodic latin groove is tops in my book...His style is cerebral, yet accessible (es musica para escuchando y para bailando.) His sense of rhythym and syncopation is nothing short of amazing! The content is strictly instrumental; piano backed by a superb small combo. The conga and trumpet work is at times fiery , at times lyrical and subdued. No wonder that back in the fifties, Dizzy Gillespie`s afro-latin jazz was infuenced by cats like him...
Submitted by a reviewer (Feeding Hills,Ma,USA)
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With BIRTH OF THE COOL, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Miles reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern ("Swing Spring"). KIND OF BLUE was the ultimate fulfillment of this approach, with Miles providing his collaborators little more than outlines for melodies and simple scales for improvisation. By emphasizing the blues and the improvisor's melodic gifts, KIND OF BLUE precipitated a major stylistic development--modal jazz.
Charles Mingus had experimented with pedal points throughout the 1950s, and the melodic freedom of Ornette Coleman's Atlantic sides was also predicated on freedom from chord changes. But KIND OF BLUE was to prove the most influential, enduring work of its kind. There was just such a vibe about these 1959 sessions--Miles' lyric genius and burgeoning stardom, the innovative voicings and rarefied touch of pianist Bill Evans, the electrifying presence of Coltrane and Cannonball--that some thirty-plus years after its initial release, KIND OF BLUE is still recognized as Davis' point of departure towards jazz's less-explored regions.
Bill Evans' translucent chords and Paul Chambers' ...
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A TODOS CUBA LE GUSTA was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance.
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BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance.
That Ry Cooder, you've got to keep an eye on him every minute, or he jumps into another cross-cultural collaboration. In the wake of his landmark recordings TALKING TIMBUKTU with Ali Farka Toure and A MEETING BY THE RIVER with V.M. Bhatt comes BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, essentially a supergroup of traditional Cuban musicians with the addition of international agitator Cooder. Somehow, Cooder always finds just the right space to slide his sinuous slide guitar into, so that it works in almost any context. Here, amidst the multi-layered percussion, piano and Cuban guitar rhythms, Cooder's slide simultaneously finds a home and eggs the ensemble on. The natural beauty of the Cuban tonal and rhythmic palette is the real star of BUENA VISTA ...
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BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS IBRAHIM FERRER was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Performance.
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS IBRAHIM FERRER was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Performance.
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS IBRAHIM FERRER won the 2000 Billboard Latin Music Award for Album Of The Year by a Male Performer and won for Album Of The Year by a New Artist.
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS IBRAHIM FERRER was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album.
Why the whole world wasn't privileged with the voice of this angel-faced singer until he reached his 70s is open to debate. What is certain though, is that this first major solo outing ...
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