In the wake of the Buena Vista Social Club sessions in 1996, the band’s then 77-year-old pianist Rubén González, who had no piano of his own, hung around EGREM studio in Havana, jamming with his ...

This is one of those evenly tempered and prettily mellifluous albums which sound at first like background music, but which reveal a subtle and sophisticated beauty if you pay closer attention. Like ...

Two decades ago Ry Cooder and Nick Gold produced a series of recordings with long-forgotten veterans of Cuban music under the now familiar name “Buena Vista Social Club,” but for me the greatest ...

Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist brought to new fame as part of the Buena Vista Social Club, has been gone for 14 years. By Gary Graff Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist brought to new fame as part of ...

One of the criteria for testing whether an album is a classic or not is to see its endurance and lasting appeal long after it was made rather than its immediate impact. When it comes to the Buena ...

Ruben Gonzalez, the elegant Cuban pianist who charmed the world with his gentle manner and dazzling style during a remarkable late-career comeback with the Buena Vista Social Club, died Monday in ...

Cuban pianist Ruben Gonzalez, who gained fame playing with the Buena Vista Social Club in recent years, died yesterday (Dec. 8) in his Havana home, his wife Eneida Lima said. He was 84. By Billboard ...