Ry Cooder / Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo

'Mambo Sinuendo', Ry Cooder's 2003 collaboration with Cuban guitar legend Manuel Galbán, which won the Grammy Award for 'Best Pop Instrumental Album', has returned on vinyl for the first time in some fifteen years. The album hearkens back to a point in the late 1950s when Cuban popular music began to hint at a fusion of American pop-jazz and the futuristic creations of modern Cuban composers (like Perez Prado). Borne along by the mid-century mambo and cha-cha-cha crazes - the hot sounds of mambo-jazz had spread out into American popular culture. For Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder enlisted the bassist for all the Buena Vista Social Club sessions, Orlando "Cachaíto" López. The percussionists include longtime collaborator Jim Keltner; Cooder's son, Joachim Cooder, another Buena Vista veteran; and the conga master Miguel "Angá" Díaz.