

"Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)."Buena Vista Social Club" ( Orestes Lopez, inventor of the mambo in 1937)."Cienfuegos (tiene su guaguanco)" ( Victor Lay)."El Carretero" (Jose "Guillermo Portabales" Quesada del Castillo)." Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona Casado)."Black Bottom" ( Ray Henderson, Lew Brown and B." Chattanooga Choo Choo" ( Harry Warren and Mack Gordon).


The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba and the United States is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time.
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The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album (also called Buena Vista Social Club) and to perform two times with a full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) and the 1st of July 1998 in the United States (at the Carnegie Hall, New York City).
