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“Seguime si podés” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1945.

“Seguime si podés” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1945.

Alejandro Scarpino & Juan Caldarella, Argentine Tango musicians and composers.

Alejandro Scarpino

Bandoneonist, leader and composer (16 January 1904 – 27 May 1970)

He was, as a performer, a player with excellent technique and command of his instrument.

Although he tended to use some gimmicks to impress his audience and used to play many embellishment notes —known in the milieu as «verduras»— his musicianship is not under suspicion.

He displayed his skills by playing two bandoneons, one with each hand, placed vertically on the floor.

Alejandro Scarpino composed around 200 pieces. “Canaro en París” and “Seguime si podés” with Juan Caldarella, among them.

Read more about Alejandro Scarpino at www.todotango.com

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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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“Que falta que me hacés” by Miguel Caló y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1963.

“Que falta que me hacés” by Miguel Caló y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1963.

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Orquesta Típica Miguel Caló

This bandoneon player who soon stopped playing his instrument to become an orchestra leader had a long career.

His decision evidenced his professional seriousness because he realized that other players were better instrumentalists than he was.

Throughout his extensive career for forty years he went to the recording studios to cut around 366 renditions.

Some numbers were recorded twice or three times with different singers.

Read more about Miguel Caló orchestra at www.todotango.com

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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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“Esta noche en Buenos Aires” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1944.

“Esta noche en Buenos Aires” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1944.

Ángel D'Agostino, Argentine Tango pianist, leader and composer.

Ángel D’Agostino

Pianist, composer and leader (25 May 1900 – 16 January 1991)

That orchestra had magic, perceived without the need for grandiloquence or stentorian deeds.

Everything was achieved through its simplicity and its good taste.

D’Agostino was right to create a style of very simple musical conceptions but with an expressive way of playing, carried out by a qualified nucleus of performers.

But the identification with Ángel Vargas determined, over the independent work of each one, the success of a team that managed to succeed at the time of the most significant presence of prominent tango figures.

In 1940 the bandoneonist Eduardo Del Piano joined the orchestra, replacing Alfredo Attadía, adding to its repertoire the tango of his authorship, “Esta noche en Buenos Aires”.

Read more about Ángel D’Agostino at www.todotango.com

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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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“Dos fracasos” by Miguel Caló y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1941.

“Dos fracasos” by Miguel Caló y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1941.

Miguel Caló, Argentine Tango musician, conductor and composer.

Miguel Caló

Bandoneonist, leader and composer (28 October 1907 – 24 May 1972)

Even though his most transcendental success is related to tango in the forties, his work starts in the late twenties and is consolidated during the thirties.

The forties reveal us the maturity of this great director, capable of assembling an outfit of young musicians of extraordinary capacity and professionalism, and all of them later organized their own groups.

The Miguel Caló orchestra will be remembered as the best tango performance, one that goes beyond its age and that today is recognized for its great artistic qualities and by a dancing group that permanently evokes it.

Read more about Miguel Caló at www.todotango.com

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“Si sos brujo: A Tango Story”

“Si sos brujo: A Tango Story”

“Si sos brujo: una historia de tango” (original title)

Stars: Emilio Balcarce, Leopoldo Federico, Ernesto Franco, and more…

Si Sos Brujo is a heartfelt, inspiring film that could do for Argentine Tango what the Buena Vista Social Club did for the music and musicians of Cuba illuminating an evolving culture, a way of life and the triumph of preserving one of the most intricate musical traditions of the world, following nearly 50 years of relative obscurity.

This beautifully shot documentary brings the compelling story of a group of young Argentine musicians racing against time to learn and preserve the elegant and nuanced music played by the legendary Golden Age tango orchestras of Buenos Aires in the 40s and 50s.

If you are familiar with the names of Pugliese, Troilo, Di Sarli and D’Arienzo, this film is essential viewing.

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