"Valsecito de antes", Argentine Tango music sheet cover.

“Valsecito de antes” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

Antonio Sureda

Bandoneonist and composer (4 October 1904 – 23 June 1951)

His early chroniclers said of him that

“… he is among those who denote an effort to increase their artistic conditions and to renew the virtues that allowed his rise.

Above the name of new figures or above the extinguished popularity of many the name of this modern king of the waltz, as he was wisely called, has daily risen.”

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9 de julio. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Nueve de Julio” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1935.

José Luis Padula

Guitarist, pianist, composer, and leader.
(October 30, 1893 – June 12, 1945)

This musician son of immigrants, born in the northern province of Tucumán, delved into tango and folk music. His father was Italian, he transferred to him his inclination for music.

As a child, he played harmonica and guitar. Unfortunately, he became an orphan at age 12, and he didn’t have the support of his mother. About her, very little is known. Therefore, being still very young, he went out to the streets to work for a living.

He had the idea of attaching his harmonica to the guitar. He fixed it to a stick fastened by a belt to the upper part of the instrument, and so it reached his mouth.

The curiosity that such a combination woke up in people, added to his musical intuition and his facility for melody, allowed him to travel throughout his province and other neighboring places until arriving in Rosario city, in the province of Santa Fe. Continue reading at www.todotango.com...

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“Indiferencia” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Echagüe in vocals, 1938.

Juan Carlos Thorry

Singer, actor, composer and lyricist (28 June 1908 – 12 February 2000)

«My first long trousers, the end of my high school studies and the time when I entered the university are very closely linked to my early experiences at dancehalls.

We used to go to dance to the venues called then cabarets.

There we held a contest of twists and turns dancing with the best players of the period.

I came to know the beloved Manos Brujas with whom we became friends.

During a rehearsal he played for me a tune he had just composed and asked me to write the lyrics for it.

There on the piano, I scribbled the first words of “Indiferencia”.»

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Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
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"La puñalada", music sheet cover. Argentine Tango music.

“La puñalada” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

Pintín Castellanos

Pianist, composer, lyricist and leader (June 10, 1905 – July 2, 1983)

In 1933 an event that would change his life happened in a night club of Carrasco where he played the piano.

One night he offered the audience a new number of his, a tango that he had entitled “La puñalada” with a certain milonga air.

In that number all his fame would be based.

In the early summer of’36, Juan D’Arienzo —as usual— was ready to begin one more season in Montevideo.

And it was probably his intuition or that of his pianist Rodolfo Biagi —for many, the one responsible for devising the rhythm that made the leader famous— that transformed Castellanos’s tango into a milonga.

Biagi and the violinist Alfredo Mancuso were who transcribed the piece.

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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