专辑介绍： 这是一张非常著名的拉丁音乐专辑，Buena Vista Social Club是40年代位于古巴哈瓦那的一家会员制音乐俱乐部，在90年代，美国的吉他歌手Ry Cooder到古巴游历时，结识了一些曾经活跃在Buena Vista Social Club的老乐手，并且对古巴音乐产生了浓厚的兴趣，于是他们一起合作了这张让古巴音乐走向世界的专辑，取得了非常大的成功，获得1998年的葛莱美奖。在1999年，Wim Wenders导演了一部同名的音乐片，并采用这张专辑中的音乐作为配乐，这部电影也相当成功。
这张专辑中浓郁的拉丁风情让人十分难忘，相信它的价值将随着时间的推移而越发显现出来。

本专辑在滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第260位。

This album is named after a members-only club that was opened in Havana in pre-Castro times, a period of unbelievable musical activity in Cuba. While bandleader Desi Arnaz became a huge hit in the States, several equally talented musicians never saw success outside their native country, and have had nothing but their music to sustain them during the Castro reign. Ry Cooder went to Cuba to record a musical documentary of these performers. Many of the musicians on this album have been playing for more than a half century, and they sing and play with an obvious love for the material. Cooder could have recorded these songs without paying the musicians a cent; one can imagine them jumping up and grabbing for their instruments at the slightest opportunity, just to play. Most of the songs are a real treasure, traversing a lot of ground in Cuba's musical history. There's the opening tune, "Chan Chan," a composition by 89-year-old Compay Segundo, who was a bandleader in the '50s; the cover of the early-'50s tune "De Camino a la Verada," sung by the 72-year-old composer Ibrahim Ferrer, who interrupted his daily walk through Havana just long enough to record; or the amazing piano playing on "Pablo Nuevo" by 77-year-old Rubén González, who has a unique style that blends jazz, mambo, and a certain amount of playfulness. All of these songs were recorded live — some of them in the musicians' small apartments — and the sound is incredibly deep and rich, something that would have been lost in digital recording and overdubbing. Cooder brought just the right amount of reverence to this material, and it shows in his production, playing, and detailed liner notes. If you get one album of Cuban music, this should be the one.