"Actor: Ibrahim Ferrer"

• Buena Vista Social Club | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £4.80   |  Saving you £5.19 (108.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album The Buena Vista Social Club.

• Buena Vista Social Club | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £8.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (92.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album The Buena Vista Social Club.

• Later With Jools Holland - World | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is the 8th 'Later' DVD to be taken from the series. It contains a fabulous collection of 33 performances featuring a range of artists from around the globe including leading lights in the world music scene Bebel Gilberto Gipsy Kings Youssou N'Dour Ibrahim Ferrer Cesaria Evora Ladysmith Black Mambazo Salif Keita plus a performance by Afel Bocoum featuring Blur's Damon Albarn. Tracklisting: 1. Youssou N'Dour: Li Ma Weesu 2. Ojos De Brujo: Ventilator R-80 3. Oumou Sang

• Buena Vista Social Club | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £7.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wim Wenders' recording of the Cuban all-stars band helped introduce the world to these consummately gifted and charismatic performers. In 1996, Ry Cooder helped bring together a group of legendary Cuban musicians under the banner of Buena Vista Social Club, the name of a popular 1940s members bar in the Buenavista quarter of Havana. Amongst the performers were guitarist and singer Compay Segundo, pianist Rúben Gonzalez, singer Ibrahim Ferrer, singer and guitarist Eliades Ochoa and singer Omara Portuondo. Their eponymous album, released in 1997, was a huge hit. On the announcement of a world tour, Wenders joined the band, recording them in concert. Cooder had previously worked with Wenders on the evocative score for the director's 1984 road movie Paris, Texas. Here, Wenders intersperses his record of the concerts with personal reminiscences by the band of their early years as musicians and performers in Batistsa's pre-revolutionary Cuba and what life was like under Castro's regime. What emerges is a riveting combination of music by a veteran band still at the top of their game and a fascinating personal insight into the history of a country.

• Buena Vista Social Club: Adios | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long since retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy-winning international bestseller. When Cooder returned to Havana in 1998 to record a solo album by 72-year-old vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, filmmaker Wim Wenders was on hand to document the occasion. Wenders splits the film between portraits of the performers, who tell their stories directly to the camera as they wander the streets and neighbourhoods of Havana, and a celebration of the music heard in performance scenes in the studio, in their first concert in Amsterdam, and in their second and final concert at Carnegie Hall. The songs are too often cut short in this fashion, but Buena Vista Social Club is not a concert film. Wenders weaves the artist biographies with a glimpse of modern Cuba remembering its past, capturing a lost culture in music that is suddenly, unexpectedly revived for audiences in Havana and around the world. Wenders makes his presence practically invisible, as if his directorial flourishes or off-screen narration might deflect attention from the artists, who do a fine job of telling their own stories through interviews and music. It's a loving portrait of a master class in Cuban music, with a vital cast of ageing performers whose energy and passion belie their years. --Sean Axmaker

• Buena Vista Social Club | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album The Buena Vista Social Club.