Watch Buena Vista Social Club Recording Landmark 1997 Album

In July 1998, a collective of Cuban musicians that became the inspiration for the film Buena Vista Social Club performed a one-night-only show at New York's Carnegie Hall. Today, the two-disc Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall hits stores, and the film will screen in several U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle (see the full list after the jump). Click above to watch the musicians digging into the Cuban jam "El Cuarto de Tula" at Havana's Egrem studio during the recording of their Grammy-winning 1997 album.

Buena Vista Social Club screenings:
New York, October 14th at 8:00pm - The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Chicago, October 14th at 8:00pm - Gene Siskel Film Center
Los Angeles, October 16th at 7:30pm - American Cinematheque at the Egyptian
Seattle, October 19th at 2:00pm - Big Picture Seattle
San Francisco, October 20th at 9:30pm - Landmark Embarcadero

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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