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Orquestra America: The Legends of Cuban Music
by Ian Nicolson
You get box sets with everything these days and most of them just gather dust, or seem designed to please dusty-eared archivists with rampant completist's syndrome. However this superb collection is designed to capture - before they fade away forever - the creators of a style that swept the world around the Second World War. Putting this line-up together is a little like making a couple of calls and being able to record Glenn Miller's original band today.
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