This is one of those evenly tempered and prettily mellifluous albums which sound at first like background music, but which reveal a subtle and sophisticated beauty if you pay closer attention. Like ...

Two decades ago Ry Cooder and Nick Gold produced a series of recordings with long-forgotten veterans of Cuban music under the now familiar name “Buena Vista Social Club,” but for me the greatest ...

“The greatest piano soloist I have ever heard in my life. He’s like a Cuban cross between Thelonious Monk and Felix the Cat.” —Ry Cooder “Gonzalez was known for his suave virtuosity and playful ...

As the documentary “Buena Vista Social Club: Adios” begins screening at a handful of South Florida theaters this weekend there soon will be another way to bathe in the warm nostalgia of that great ...