Tango Nuevo
This post is a copy of a 2020 post on the LA Tango Academy website, discussing the evolution of tango since the early 1990s, by way of a video clip of an interview with Mariano “Chicho” Frúmboli, one of the … Read More
Useful reminder about Tango codigos
Thanks Matthew Civil and JoJo from Wellington for posting the video clip.
Joaquin Amenabar’s “Let’s Dance to the Music” Tango eBooks
This week Joaquin Amenabar published a new seven-language website incorporating an online store from which new “Let’s Dance to the Music!” eBooks can be purchased. His teaching and his books provide in-depth musicality lessons for tango dancers who haven’t studied … Read More
Bohemia Quinteto Tango with Flor Cozzani – January 20, 2022
This week’s “Tanda of the Week” plays recordings by the contemporary Buenos Aires orquesta Bohemia Quinteto Tango featuring talented young vocalist Flor (Florencia) Cozzani. Bohemia Quinteto Tango, with a line up of bandoneon, violin, cello, piano, and double bass, was … Read More
Tango Musicality Workshop
The notes below are intended for participants in one of my Tango musicality workshops Intro I get a lot of joy listening to groups of musicians who are all really locked in together, playing creative music with precise rhythms and … Read More
Jorge Ortiz with Rodolfo Biagi – August 12, 2021
This week’s Tango Mahi “Tanda of the Week” is of 1940s recordings by vocalist Jorge Ortiz with Orquesta Rodolfo Biagi. Juan Edelmiro Alessio (who became famous in the 1940s with the stage name Jorge Ortiz) was born in Buenos Aires … Read More
Orquesta Tipica Andariega – August 5, 2021
This week’s Tango Mahi “Tanda of the Week” is of valses by Orquesta Tipica Andariega. After moving to Buenos Aires, in 2009 Italian bass player Luigi Coviello recruited a number of very good young musicians and formed a new orquesta, … Read More
Francini-Pontier Tangos – July 29, 2021
This week’s Tango Mahi “Tanda of the Week” is of vocal tangos of Orquesta Francini-Pontier. In 1936 a tango music teacher and band leader from Zarate, north of Buenos Aires, organised for a group comprising some of his best local … Read More
Lomuto / Díaz Tangos – July 22, 2021
Tango Mahi Practica – Tanda of the Week – Tango recordings by Francisco Lomuto y su Orquesta Tipica with vocals by Fernando Díaz Francisco Lomuto was born in 1893, so was in his mid teens when the earliest tangos were … Read More
Di Sarli Instrumental Tangos – July 8, 2021
Tango Mahi Practica – Tanda of the Week – Instrumental tango compositions and recordings by Carlos Di Sarli. Carlos Di Sarli was an accomplished classical pianist who developed into a brilliant tango pianist, composer and bandleader, and one of the … Read More