Download:
http://www.ftp2share.com/file/18271/ibferrer.rar.html

Other albums (all in Lossless format - APE, FLAC):

• Burmester Art For The Ear - Vorführungs - CDIII - Audiophile Test CD
  
• Earl Klugh - George Benson - A collaboration album
  
• Buena Vista Social Club with Ry Cooder - 1997 - Audiophile album !!
  
• Ben Webster - King of Tenor - UPDATED ! - Audiophile album !!
  
• The Tony Bennet Bill Evans Album [1975-2001] XRCD
  
• Russ Freeman - Holiday
  
• Dave Koz and Friends - A Smooth Jazz Christmas 2001
  
• Chet Baker - Silent Nights: A Christmas Jazz Album
  
• Dave Brubeck - Live at Carnegie Hall - A Must Have!
  
• Ray Brown & Laurindo Almeida - Moonlight Serenade - Audiophile album !!
  
• Earl Klugh with Bob James - Cool 1992
  
• Jazz in Paris - Vol.66 - Raymond Fol - Les 4 Saisons (The 4 Seasons - Vivaldi)
  
• Mark O'Connor with Jon Burr & Frank Vignola - Hot Swing

Christmas rock opera (DVD):
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Ghost Of Christmas Eve [DVD]

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When the Buena Vista Social Club album was released to great acclaim in 1997, it revived the careers of quite a few incredibly talented aging Cuban musicians. Like Ibrahim Ferrer, most of those musicians (who had been legendary in the '40s through the '70s) hadn't been performing professionally in decades. With the success of the Buena Vista Social Club, everything changed; they toured the globe, and plans for follow-up albums followed. Ibrahim Ferrer's was the second of what became a line of Buena Vista releases, all hoping to cash in on the success of the first. Ferrer's album is pleasant, the kind of album you could put on during brunch on a sunny morning. The album features many classic Cuban compositions. Original arrangers, musicians, and bandleaders were involved whenever possible. One standout is "Mami Me Gusto," a rolling upbeat tune by the legendary Cuban composer/bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez. On that tune Ferrer is lively and loose, and he is joined by Rodriguez's original pianist, the masterful Ruben Gonzales. The rest of the album is nice, but rarely as inspired or joyous as the original Buena Vista release. This is a much more romantic sounding album and on the right tunes, like "Aquellos Ojos Verdes," they really hit the mark; Ferrer shines and Gonzales sends glistening piano lines cascading down the keys. At age 63-plus, Ferrer was long overdue for a debut album, and as a result the disc communicates a feel of easy satisfaction. If you're looking for classy cocktail party music that will hold the attention of music fans, and won't bother the uninterested, look no further.

It should never cease to amaze how spry and dramatically potent a force is the Buena Vista Social Club. The group--really a gaggle of aging Cuban maestros brought together for stunning all-star performances--keeps its footing in Cuban dance music at the same time as it revels in the lax tempo of layered hand percussion and traditional rhythms. Ibrahim Ferrer stepped to the international fore as the vocalist on the eponymous BVSC CD in 1997 and here furthers his already-obvious command of everything from sultry, horn-swaying ballads to gritty son tunes like "Mamí Me Gustá." Ferrer's tattered vocal inflections shape the more rollicking tunes so their texture is palpable, especially when belted in antiphonal give-and-takes with the rest of the huge band he totes along here. A 15-member-strong string section steps forward on the bolero tracks, which send off a smoldering passion that's startling in light of the BVSC's heightened, horn-charged charts. But the rich string passages color songs in wide brush strokes, which is to say that they heighten the passion to no end. Ferrer's debut might come in his twilight years, but it's a majorly luminous event.

Track List:
1 Bruca Manigua (4:43)
2 Herido de Sombras (4:11)
3 Marieta (5:55)
4 Guateque Campesino (5:09)
5 Mami Me Gusto (5:04)
6 Nuestra Ultima Cita (3:56)
7 Cienfuegos Tiene Su Guaguancó (5:22)
8 Silencio (4:38)
9 Aquellos Ojos Verdes (4:54)
10 Que Bueno Baila Usted (4:39)
11 Como Fué