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"Un lamento", Argentine Tango music sheet cover.

“Un lamento” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1942.

Graciano De Leone

Bandoneonist, leader, and composer
(July 16, 1890 – June 21, 1945)

Even though he was a “fueye” man, the first bucks he got were playing guitar at the Café de las Mercedes in La Boca when he teamed up with the bandoneon player Antonio Cacace, widely popular by that time.

This took place until he came to know Eduardo Arolas in 1909 one evening that he crossed the city to El Abasto area.

They played in numerous backyard balls, adding a violinist that played by ear and was known as “El Quijudo”. Now as bandoneon instrumentalist, Arolas himself had passed on to him the music of the first number, a waltz, “Las sirenas”, and one by Alfredo Bevilacqua, “Recuerdos de la pampa”.

His beginning with the new instrument was in 1910. Continue reading at www.todotango.com...

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“El viejo vals”, by Charlo and guitars.

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Charlo

Real name: Pérez, Carlos José
Singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer.
(7 July 1906 – 30 October 1990)

After Carlos Gardel, Charlo is the most important singer in tango, although, unlike him he did not become a popular myth. He was the vocalist who recorded most, in a discographic career started in 1925 and ended in 1967. However, the main part of his recordings are concentrated in only four years, from 1928 to 1931. In most of those renditions he reaches a level comparable to Gardel’s. Like him, he was responsible for establishing an emotional style though austere and without exaggerations, of perfect intonation and attentive musicianship. As composer he displayed his great melodic talent, giving birth to important pieces in tango romanza style. Continue reading.

Juan Carlos Bazan, Argentine Tango musician and composer.

“La Chiflada” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica, 1942.

Juan Carlos Bazán

Stout, rather fat, and a good guy is the description with which those who knew him and gave us their testimony coincided.

In his youth, a waiter of a Japanese barroom located on 25 de Mayo Street a few meters from Corrientes, had told him that on several occasions he had seen that on the corner of the street people used to crowd together to listen to some music.

Eager to know, one day he went closer and, in the middle of that occasional audience, he saw Fat Bazán playing a long brass trumpet from which a cloth banner with golden letters was hanging.

It was the advertisement of Kalisay, an aperitif of that time, which included the classic boy doll with a large head that represented an old man… Continue reading at www.todotango.com...

Here you can see Juan Carlos Bazán playing his clarinet, next to his life long friend “El Pibe” Ernesto Ponzio, and “El Cachafaz” and Carmencita Calderón dancing, in this scene from the first sound film made in Argentina, “Tango!”, of 1933.

From “History of Tango – Part 3: La Guardia Vieja” and “History of Tango – Part 8: Roberto Firpo and the acceptance of the piano in the Orquesta Típica” (read more, click here).