Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist brought to new fame as part of the Buena Vista Social Club, has been gone for 14 years. By Gary Graff Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist brought to new fame as part of ...
In the wake of the Buena Vista Social Club sessions in 1996, the band’s then 77-year-old pianist Rubén González, who had no piano of his own, hung around EGREM studio in Havana, jamming with his ...
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 ...