Marco Ramirez's multilayered book for "Buena Vista" tells the story of the making of the album in Havana, Cuba ... of ...

when an impoverished Cuba continued to suffer from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the U.S. blockade, and 1956, when a far more prosperous country was on the verge of revolution. Fidel Castro ...

So transportive are the intoxicating Cuban music and spirited dance that it ... time — from the days leading up to the 1959 Cuban Revolution to the 1996 recording session at which the lost ...