The Buena Vista was an old members-only social club situated in the hills in east Havana. This instrumental was written by Israel Lopez and was suggested for these sessions by his nephew, Orlando Cachao to Lopez who plays bass throughout this album.

Cachao to comes from a whole family of musicians, which includes forty bass players. His father, Orestes and uncle Israel Cachao, both prolific composers learnt to play bass from their father, Pedro. In the late 1930s the brothers experimented with an African influenced syncopation of the danzon to lay the foundations of the mambo rhythm, which soon came to the forefront of popular Cuban music. In the 1950s Israel played a seminal role in the creation of the descarga, which fused jazz style improvisation with Afro-Cuban rhythms. This recording, which opens in danzon rhythm and moves into a mambo section, features an extended improvisation from Rubén González on piano.