Juan de Marcos Gonz�¡lez and the Afro-Cuban All Stars
Sixty-five year old guitarist Juan de Marcos Gonzalez saw his career explode after he agreed to play ball with legendary producer Ry Cooder and a host of his native Cuba's unsung heroes for 1997's Buena Vista Social Club, a landmark album full of both of cultural history and remarkable music that deserved far more documentation than it had previously earned.
Gonzalez's other concurrent group isn't technically the Social Club lineup, but since taking a bunch of rickety old octogenarians on a world tour is no easy task, it's about as close as you're going to get. (Buena Vista and former All-Stars bassist Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez just passed away on February 9.) Several members have been shared between both groups over the years, and the debut album from the All-Stars, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta was culled from the same sessions as the Cooder production and released the same year.
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