“So What’ or ‘Kind of Blue’, they were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It’s over …. What I used to play with Bill Evans, all those different modes, and substitute chords, we had the energy then and we liked it. But I have no feel for it anymore—it’s more like warmed-over turkey.” – Miles Davis

The acclaimed traditional Cuban album “Buena Vista Social Club” was conceived & created in just days by American guitarist Ry Cooder & producer Nick Gold after a recording session in Havana, Cuba fell apart. For his trouble, Cooder was fined $25,000 by the U.S. Gov’t. for violating the Cuban Embargo Act.

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