Jazz Articles about Orquestra America

Orquestra America: The Legends of Cuban Music

by Ian Nicolson
March 1, 1999

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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