Burt in Hananna Cuba
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:07 pm
USA Today reports:
'Havana' sings cross-cultural praises
Political tensions between the United States and Cuba fade away on
the CD/DVD Bridge to Havana, which documents the cross-cultural
collaboration of more than 70 American, European and Cuban musicians
and songwriters.
Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, Mick Fleetwood, Peter
Frampton and Montell Jordan are among the stars who traveled to Cuba
in 1999. Their work is captured on an album and in a DVD concert, set
for July release by Pyramid Records.
Pyramid president Alan Jacoby says musicians were partnered by
pulling names out of hats, and the songs were written and recorded in
a week at three studios set up at Havana's historic Hotel
Nacional: "Some magic happened that week."
'Havana' sings cross-cultural praises
Political tensions between the United States and Cuba fade away on
the CD/DVD Bridge to Havana, which documents the cross-cultural
collaboration of more than 70 American, European and Cuban musicians
and songwriters.
Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, Mick Fleetwood, Peter
Frampton and Montell Jordan are among the stars who traveled to Cuba
in 1999. Their work is captured on an album and in a DVD concert, set
for July release by Pyramid Records.
Pyramid president Alan Jacoby says musicians were partnered by
pulling names out of hats, and the songs were written and recorded in
a week at three studios set up at Havana's historic Hotel
Nacional: "Some magic happened that week."