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In 1996 legendary blues guitarist Ry Cooder went to Cuba with world music producer Nick Gold to record with two African musicians. When the musicians failed to gain entry to the country, Cooder went in search of the great Cuban jazz musicians of the 1940s and 1950s that he had first fallen in love with when visiting Cuban neighborhoods in New York. With director Wim Wenders documenting the journey - and later turning it into a hugely successful film - Cooder rounded up Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzales, Omara Portuondo and a host of old-time stars from Havana who'd faded from public...