Yoshi's Oakland (Venue Partner)
510 Embarcadero West
510-238-9200
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Courtesy Yoshi's Jazz Club
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Tuesday July 13, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
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$5
“In 1996, producer and composer Ry Cooder went on a musical treasure hunt to Cuba to seek out the Afro-Cuban legends of the 1940s and preserve their music. Vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer was shining shoes at the time and there were rumors that pianist Rubén González was too arthritic to play, or perhaps even dead. Against the odds, Cooder gathered these superablos (super-grandfathers) into the EGREM studios and recorded The Buena Vista Social Club album. Cooder slipped a rough copy into the bag of director Wim Wenders, with whom he had collaborated on the score of Paris, Texas (1984). Wenders was electrified, and when Cooder gave him one week's notice to cobble together a camera crew and fly to Cuba, he jumped to it. Tonight, the resulting documentary is featured at Yoshi's first-ever movie night. Treat yourself to a mojito and a dose of cinema you can dance to.”
Bonnie Chan, Flavorpill
Yoshi's says:
Ry Cooder has composed the musical score for several Wim Wenders films, including Paris, Texas (1984) and The End of Violence (1997). Wenders now turns the camera on Cooder. In 1996, Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music from the '30s, '40s, and '50s to collaborate on the bestselling and Grammy-winning album The Buena Vista Social Club. Inspired by these colorful characters and their extraordinary music, Wenders travels to Havana, Cuba, to chronicle the cooperation and camaraderie between Ry Cooder and his veteran friends — now known in Cuba as "Los Superablos" (the Super-Grandfathers) — as well as their dazzling sellout concerts in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall in April and July 1998.
