Exitos De Oro [Import]

Bola De Nieve | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 3, 1998)
• Original Release Date: February 3, 1998
• Format: Import
• Label: Orfeon Records
• ASIN: B0000062M8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,096,570 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ay Mama Ines

2. Vete de Mi

3. La Flor de la Canela

4. Ya No Me Quieres

5. Drume Negrita

6. Adios Felicidad

7. Merce

8. Que Dirás de Mi

9. Me Contaron de Ti

10. No Puedo Ser Feliz

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Espabilate

2. Alla en el Batey

3. Tanisla

4. Belen

5. Tu Me Has de Querer

6. Eco

7. Baro

8. No Te Importe Saber

9. Tres Motivos de Son

10. Mama Perfecta

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an extraordinary record for an extraordinary price, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Exitos De Oro (Audio CD)

This album includes most of the work of this extraordinary figure of cuban music. Not only was Bola de Nieve a virtuoso jazz piano player and a flawleess and very creative singer, he was also a black openly gay man courageously singing in a time when nobody even dared to do such a thing. But it is his true muscicianship that really stands out. His harmonic vocabulary is astaunding. He creates beautiful atmospheres sometimes romantic, sometimes nostalgic, and always touching. His versions of african lullabies are legendary; nobody could sing to childrenn like he did. Unique, absolutely unique. He also spans the range from the most yorubAN tribal arragements as in "Babalu" to very advanced jazz approaches that still ring daring and avan garde after decades of his death. But the best thing about this set is the price two unfrogettables CD's for less than $15; a statement of how understimated this incredible man was and still is.

5.0 out of 5 stars Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!, December 13, 2001

By 

Kevin Monahan "kevimon" (Kanazawa Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exitos De Oro (Audio CD)

Think of Fats Waller, but a lefty and more sentimental, full of
joy but not far from tears, his piano as incomparable as his
voice. Musica exquisita y entendida y comprensible por gringos
como yo.