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With its beginnings in traditional tango, the Argentine composer's work has taken on new life through different instrumentations, adaptations, and genre-bending arrangements. Author Austin Way is a ...

Recorded and published in 1974 in Milan, this sultry tango marks a change in style for composer Astor Piazzolla from classical tango to nuevo tango. While you might not be familiar with the term ...

When Astor Piazzolla received a bandoneon from his father, as a present, he was disappointed. This was an instrument for that old tango music his dad liked. And then he played it, and he was hooked.

GARY BURTON is jazz's leading virtuoso of the vibraphone: not an instrument you'd expect to find in the intensely dramatic world of ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, the late great master of tango as serious, ...

In the waning years of the tango’s “golden age,” which spanned the 1930s to the mid-1950s, the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) began writing irresistible music that melded elements of ...

Julian Curwin's project uses Astor Piazzolla's intoxicating creations as a starting point, drawing in electronic elements as well as snatches of free jazz, cool jazz, and soundtrack music. Save this ...

Born 100 years ago today, composer Piazzolla revolutionised the traditional tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. Here’s why Google is celebrating him today. Astor Piazzolla, ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the bandoneon virtuoso and composer Astor Piazzolla, through five key locations. All his life he fought against the tide, and in the end, he was the ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the bandoneon virtuoso and composer Astor Piazzolla, through five key locations - New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome and Punta del Este. Born in 1921, ...