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Ibrahim Ferrer

Silencio - Ibrahim Ferrer & The Buena Vista Social Club
about 1 year ago
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Ibrahim Ferrer is an inspiration. This is the singer that Ry Cooder dubbed the Nat King Cole of Cuba. This is the man who for forty years was forgotton and worked shining shoes on the streets of Havana until Ry Cooder came a calling and looking for the original Buena Vista Social Club. At age 67, Cooder found Ferrer and the rest of the Social cCub recorded and album and they finally found the r...

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Lists Aplenty .....
over 2 years ago

We have lots of lists.Some easier to compile than others.I suggest a more difficult kind of question.I'll give you a list of Questions.Answer just one. Your choice. Just one.On your mark ....1. Name an album, group or song that has without a shadow of a doubt changed your life. I mean some crucial turning point, not some thing you just happen to be playing after 4 years and made you remember so...

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One more stop down south...
over 2 years ago

Here's Cuban legend Ibrahim Ferrer with "Marieta". The lead guitar in this is so edgy, it makes me nervous.

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canciones del amor
over 2 years ago

I'm listening to the new (final/posthumous) Ibrahim Ferrer recording, Mi Sueño (my dream), which is dreamy indeed. Romantic ballads, including Perfidia and Quizas, some of which were demos that were enhanced/arranged after Ferrer's passing. I realized (see previous mogs on "Coltrane/Hartman":http://mog.com/deedee/blog_post/34512 and on "Last of the Breed":http://mog.com/deedee/blog_post/58211)..

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