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There were many such distinctive clubs in Cuba for separate races and early African slaves had their own clubs as did various different cultural groups. For anyone who knows their musical history, this was the era that saw the birth of a jazz influenced Afro-Cuban musical style which had a strong impact on popular music not just in Cuba but also in the United States of America USA.

Many of the clubs open to members of one race were closed, including the BVSC. It was during this period that numerous musicians emigrated, and the best and the rest were thrown out of work due to venue closures all over the city. Not only did this cause economic difficulties for the artists, one most famous talent resorting to shoe-shining on the ramshackle city streets in order to eke out a living, but it also paved the way for a radical change in musical style, which became heavily influenced by American rock and funk.

As a result interest was revived in the club and its music and the album became a huge worldwide hit. After returning to the US and realising there was a story to be told in the history of the BVSC and maybe thinking he had a propaganda coup on his hands? Cooder persuaded a German film maker, Wim Wenders, to make a documentary about the club, which he agreed to. The film included some footage taken on location in Havana and also in New York and is famous for a scene in which the Cuban musicians, some of whom had never left Cuba before, are seen window shopping and visiting tourist sites in New York.

Take a look if you can, and when you watch you will clearly see the awe and wonder wordlessly revealed by the visiting Cubans, like that kid-in-a-sweet-shop moment, when they see the consumer delights available in the large department stores and as they experience the sights and sounds of a developed city. Undoubtedly the contrasts between the developed consumer society they were visiting and the impoverished, embargoed and frozen-in-time island they had come from were quite stark - so small wonder really that they showed surprise.

The film was a box office success and there was more and greater interest in the music of the BVSC, even though some found the film condescending and blatantly obvious in its message with its footage of run-down Havana shown in contrast to the ultra-modern, shining and gleaming New York. TV appearances, performances and international shows soon followed with a varying number of different musical line-ups, as many of the ageing Cuban performers died along the way.

Due to the political climate, some of these concerts were not without problems. But like old stalwarts do, the band played on, despite many line-up changes and they continued to perform throughout the world re-igniting an interest in the irresistible magic of the music.

As change has inevitably come to Cuba and its once firmly closed doors have been opened and left slightly ajar, many of the Cuban musicians have gone on to perform individually or in collaboration with other acclaimed artists enabling the elegantly sculpted tunes and warm acoustic rhythms from the tiny resilient Caribbean island of Cuba to live on and making worldwide stars of a group of Cuban octogenarians who have lived quite literally through thick and thin.

The concert Whilst the economy of Cuba is still in a mess and who are we to talk? It is energetic, exciting, full of possibility and as passionate as the feelings that the word Castro stirs in almost everyone.

With CD sales in the tens of millions, this music must be some of the most popular and enduring, ever? Nevertheless, hearing it again took me back in an instant to a sunny Cuban holiday a couple of winters past and a lingering afternoon whiling away the hours being serenaded by a travelling 4-piece ensemble and the aroma from their big fat Cuban cigars!

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