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...DIED. PEDRO DEPESTE, 55, violinist with the acclaimed Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club, after collapsing onstage during a concert; in Basel, Switzerland...
...group is fluent in the many rhythms and styles that they incorporate. While “Foforo Fo Firi” is reminiscent of the best Afro-Cuban tunes, “Brother Running/Brother Gettin’ Caught” speaks the language of the post-Marsalis jazz combo. “New Second Line” captures the joy of Mardi Gras, with all the swagger and raucousness of a Fat Tuesday parade. The sweet simple statement of Tom Jobim’s bossa “Corcovado” is a welcome cool-down midway through an otherwise...
...standout performance of the night was the band’s rendition of Dizzy Gillespie’s Afro-Cuban classic “Night In Tunisia.” Switching back and forth between Dizzy’s classic rhythm and a rhumba, the band weaved their way through all the twists of the tune, and added a few themselves. The tune ended with a spellbinding cadenza by Mayfield, his trumpet wailing and growling, with the audience goading him on. After Mayfield closed out the tune, Summers turned to the audience matter-of-factly and said...
...three-day battle beginning on April 17 was, of course, a disaster. The strategic concept was faulty, the tactics worse, the forces and weapons inadequate, the intelligence abysmally off the mark. The idea was that between 1,400 and 1,500 Cuban exiles bolstered by U.S. training and equipment would march triumphantly from the Bay of Pigs into Havana where the people would rise against Castro. If that did not happen, the force was to slip into the mountains and launch guerrilla warfare. Instead they were captured by Cuba's 20,000 troops, leaving Castro to stand even taller astride...
...right. Kennedy stood up to it, took the blame for the Bay of Pigs, rearranged his staff and a year later when confronted by the Cuban Missile Crisis steered a steady and successful course through that nuclear peril...