World Music Dinner Party

It's always fun when dinner-party hosts experiment with unusual recipes from exotic locations, so this collection aims to do the same with music. Some of the selections are familiar, like old friends—the players in Buena Vista Social Club genuinely are old friends—and some have the palate-cleansing freshness of the new, with the passionate heat of Amadou & Mariam being cooled by the smoothness of Rokia Traoré.