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...public was thirsting for more Cuban music. On the last day of the Clinton presidency--after Cooder had lobbied the State Department for two years--he was given a one-year exemption from the travel ban. The result is Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder's playful, dueling guitar album with Manuel Galban. "I knew that I wanted to work with the Buena Vista musicians again because, hey, many of them are geniuses," says Cooder. "But Manuel's the most surprising of them all. This kind of versatile talent I just hadn't figured...
Most Cuban musicians stick close to the technical requirements of their discipline. "For whatever reason," says Cooder, "Galban has made adjustments during his life, and he's developed into a free player. He breaks away from patterns and styles in ways that other Cubans don't. That suits the electric guitar really well, and it also allowed us as collaborators to kind of meet in the middle, 'cause I'm not Cuban." Mambo Sinuendo has moments where it sounds like the sound track to a particularly cool Havana nightclub, but the two players achieve a dynamic so loose and easy...
That freedom belies the geopolitical and logistical circumstances under which Mambo was recorded. Cooder and Galban, 72, tried to create a lifetime's worth of musical repartee in pressure-packed 10-hour recording sessions. (During his exemption, Cooder also produced an album by Buena Vista vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, Buenos Hermanos, due out in March.) "Because every minute counts," says Cooder, "you pretty much just keep the tape running." The continual recording paid off when Galban walked into the studio one day, sat down at the piano and played Bolero Sonambulo, Mambo's best track, fully formed. "You knew right away...
...Leona Helmsley's queen of the same title -- Perelman's lawyer, Stanley Arkin, did his best to tarnish Tepperman's reputation. Outside the jury's presence, Arkin claimed that Tepperman, after admitting his wife to the Florida nursing home where she is still a resident, began living with Denese Galban, the nurse who once cared for her. Tepperman's lawyers do not dispute his involvement with Galban but insist that the relationship has the blessing of other family members...
...always had his hand in a sugar bowl. He grew up in Cuba (after his banker father was forced out of Venezuela by a revolution), came to the U.S. for a. degree in sugar engineering at Louisiana State University, then went into the family sugar-trading firm of Galban Lobo. Soon Lobo was on his own, eventually started buying mills as the best protection for a speculator. Five months ago he bought his latest and most impressive parcel: a $24.5 million complex of Cuban mills and other assets called the Hershey properties, once held by the chocolate-makers and since...