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Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Manuel Guajiro Mirabal | 
 enlarge | Artist: Manuel "el Guajiro" Mirabal
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 15339
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79810
UPC: 075597981025
EAN: 0075597981025
ASIN: B0006SSNCI
Release Date: January 4, 2005
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| Tracks:
| | El rincon caliente | | | Para bailar el montuno | | | Deuda | | | El roloj de Pastora | | | Me bote de guano | | | Mi Corazon no tiene quien lo llore | | | Tengo que olvidarte | | | Canta montero | | | Chicarronero | | | No vuelvo a Monon/Las tres Marias/Apurrunenme mujeres Medley | | | Dombe Dombe |
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Album Description
Cuban trumpeter Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabel was among the first musicians recruited by British producer Nick Gold for the now legendary sessions at Havana's Egrem Studio that yielded the multi-platinum Buena Vista Social Club album and Wim Wenders' groundbreaking concert documentary. But the veteran player already had enjoyed a rich musical history, having performed for more than 40 years in some of the most celebrated Cuban nightclub orchestras. With this lively set of '40s-era conjunto classics, he pays tribute to pioneering Cuban composer-bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez, whose trumpet arrangements inspired Mirabel as a boy.
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For his first solo album, 71-year-old trumpeter Mirabal has created a tribute to the seminal bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez. The latter was a tres-wielding maverick who reveled in Cuba's African heritage and gave new opportunities to the piano and brass. With three trumpeters on board, it is not surprising that the tracks often explode into blaring, festive, sloppy--precise fanfares, but Papi Oviedo on tres and pianist Roberto Fonseca more than hold their own. The singers also get a workout, notably on Me Bote De Guano, with its humming opening chorus and robust tenor lead vocal. The late Ruben Gonzalez, who was Rodriguez's original keyboard man, is heard on Dombe Dombe, a tune he suggested for the set list. The sessions were recorded in Havana at legendary Egrem Studios with a minimum of technical bells-and-whistles and if the sonic texture is somewhat rough and remote, it only adds to the studio-live atmosphere. --Christina Roden Recommended Similar Titles 
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Summer in your living room April 5, 2008
R. Salden (Grevenbicht, The Netherlands)
Great cd, love the latin jazz / salsa from the Buena Vista Social Club !
Perfeccion musical! March 23, 2008
Orlando Abreu
Esta grabacion de "El Guajiro" Mirabal es maravillosa. Los arreglos y la interpretacion de los musicos y sus cantantes es de primer orden. La calidad del sonido es asombrosa, especialmente en el sonido de los vientos y del cuero de las tumbadoras; un deleite para los oidos amantes de la buena musica. BRAVO!!
The wait was worth it... January 14, 2008
E. R. Slayton
It is about time that "Guajiro" Mirabal's music got its own stage. He has been a mainstay of the Cuban music scene for a long long time. His trumpet is clearly heard ln collaborations with many of the other mainstays of that wonderful music, but this is his first "solo" cd. Do not worry, the selections still include the talents of many of the same voices and sounds I have learned to love from their music. I sincerely hope this is not the only cd we get from Mirabal. His music is too good and too memorable. I could ask, "why did we have to wait so long?" But I would rather just crank up the speakers and say, "the wait was worth it..."
Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Manuel Guajiro Mirabal CD December 30, 2007
J. Tague (Derry, NH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this CD for my son who loves it. He's very much into this music. So I was glad to add it to his collection.
Out of this world August 23, 2007
Maria M. Rosario
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love old music, this is great, anything from CUBA is the best. Every single track is just awesome. I cannot get enough. Especially El Reloj de Pastora, Deuda, Mi Corazon No Tiene Quien Lo Llore, Pa Moron, all of them are just great.
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