I bought the album, and I agree, not necessarily the 50 songs that I would find essential, but interesting and more than a few new ones for me. I also haven't heard, so far, anything I would really dance to, but there are some very nice listening songs.
I don't know if anyone has experienced this - but I have changed a lot in how I think about tango music. When I began, anything and everything was fair game, I danced to anything "tango" and a lot that wasn't. Then, every song was measured against a "danceability standard." Now, I find that I have two kinds of music, dancing and listening.....has this been the case for other folks? -----Original Message----- From: RonTango <ronta...@rocketmail.com> To: Steve Littler <s...@stevelittler.com>; Trini y Sean (PATangoS) <patan...@yahoo.com> Cc: Tango-L <tango-l@mit.edu> Sent: Fri, Aug 21, 2009 4:51 pm Subject: [Tango-L] Piazzolla is not played at Traditional Milongas ----- Original Message ---- > From: Steve Littler <s...@stevelittler.com> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Fw: Astor Piazzolla & 50 Essential Tangos for $1.99 starting tonight > > Well, I bought it and for me, I DON'T see it as essential for > traditional dancers. The early stuff with Gardel is scratchy. The > Piazolla is from a live album. A lot of the other stuff has more of a > piano bar/jazz feeling to me. There is NOTHING in the collection that I > have ever heard at a traditional milonga here in Florida. (Whenever I > have heard a Piazolla tanda at a traditional milonga here in Florida, it > was a studio cut - NOT a live cut.) Nuevo fans might find a few cuts they like. > El Stevito de Gainesville Piazzolla is not played at traditional milongas - only tango music from the tango dance orchestras of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, with an occasional tanda of a modern orchestra (after 1960) playing in that style. This is what is played in the overwhelming majority of milongas in Buenos Aires. It is the music, in part, that defines a milonga as 'traditional', although using that label for a milonga is as redundant as using 'Argentine tango' to describe the tango danced in Buenos Aires milongas. The deviations from the cultural tradition are what need the modifiers - 'alternative milongas' and 'nuevo (tango)'. Ron .. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l