How Havana Sang Before ‘Buena Vista,’ ‘Last Supper’: New DVDs - We Are the Music!

If you had ears for Wim Wenders’s 1999 documentary “The Buena Vista Social Club,” you’ll want to know all about “We Are the Music!”In the Wenders film, Ry Cooder assembled for the cameras a group of great Havana musicians who, prior to recording a best- selling album, had largely been forgotten. “We Are the Music!” made in black and white in 1964 by the Cuban filmmaker Rogelio Paris, is a more scattershot documentary, but it’s intoxicatingly alive with song and dance.”*

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