Music
**** LOS SUPER SEVEN “Canto,” Columbia/Legacy
March 11, 2001
*** “Cuba!”; Manuel Barrueco, guitar; EMI Classics
June 13, 1999
When Los Super Seven opened its show Wednesday at the House of Blues with the raucous “Compay Gato,” the performance was a little too hesitant to capture the sheer magic of the the formidable Latin music collective’s new recording.
March 16, 2001
Entertainment & Arts
The melting-pot music of the Caribbean Jazz Project at the Veterans Wadsworth Theater on Saturday night was a singularly multicultural musical experience, and one of the most entertaining jazz events of the season.
April 28, 1997
When Los Angeles guitarist Ry Cooder went to Cuba three years ago to produce the Buena Vista Social Club sessions, it’s doubtful he envisioned that the resulting album would go on to become a million-seller, spawning a worldwide craze for traditional Cuban music and becoming the most miraculous revelation in Latin music during the ‘90s.
Nov. 20, 1999
Frank Emilio Flynn, the blind Cuban pianist whose career spanned seven decades and bridged musical styles as disparate as the courtly contredanse and the improvisational descarga, has died.
Aug. 27, 2001
On Sunday afternoon in Barnsdall Park, a kind of culturally based equal-time proposition unfolded in the womb-like theater downstairs.
Feb. 28, 1995
Pianist Alfredo Rodriguez’s journey of note
Oct. 3, 2009
Chucho Valdes is a major presence in a room even before he sits down at a piano.
Sept. 25, 2003
The Cuban American Cultural Institute kicked off its Festival ‘98, a nine-day celebration of Cuban culture, with an explosive evening of music.
April 13, 1998