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Edgar Macias plays Buena Vista Social Club

0	STOURBRIDGE: Katie Fitzgerald's
P	Saturday 1st June, 2024
N	7:00pm

Event information

The project is about the Edgar Macías Quintet’s “take” on this album or rendition of it. Every single track from this landmark album has been re-arranged and adapted for a Latin Jazz Quintet format, based on the abilities of each member of the group.

Buena Vista Social Club is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana’s 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the recording sessions that something very special was taking place. However, no one could have predicted that Buena Vista Social Club would become a worldwide phenomenon – awarded a Grammy in 1997 and, at 8 million copies, outselling any other record in the same genre..

Recent quotes:
A superb quintet (…) who collectively created a compelling mix of Cuban percussive rhythm and jazz improvisation on what was a careful thoughtful crafted re-arranged intoxicating project’. ‘(…) a stand up ovation from a packed enthusiastic audience’
- Paul R. Croft, The Blue Room at Lincoln, UK
Various Links:
Concert at Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham (10th July 2022)

https://www.youtube.com/live/VPfKhaAUXFI?feature=share

Concert at the Jam House in Birmingham

https://fb.watch/lse2-khw92/