Sierra Maestra: Sonando Ya | CD review

(World Village/Harmonia Mundi)Sierra Maestra are Cuba's great survivors. They started out back in the mid-1970s, when a group of engineering students at Havana University decided to form a band reviving Cuba's classic son styles, and since then they have just kept going, mixing old material with new songs in the son tradition, with a dash of up-tempo big band guaracha or Afro-Cuban jazz thrown in. There have been changes in personnel over the years – the band no longer includes Juan de Ma...

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