ASTOR PIAZZOLA & GARY BURTON : THE NEW TANGO [Re-up]

ASTOR PIAZZOLA
Piazzolla nasceu em 11 de Março de 1921 em Mar del Plata. De 1924 a 1937 viveu em Nova York, onde seus pais se instalam. Começa a estudar bandoneón em 1930, e em seguida piano, com um discípulo de Serge Rachmaninov, na perspectiva de poder adaptar obras escritas para piano, para bandoneón. Em Nova York,Carlos Gardel o convidou a gravar várias peças do seu filme“El día que me quieras". Em 1937, retornou à Argentina onde começou verdadeiramente a sua carreira como bandoneonista na orquestra de Aníbal Troilo. Em 1946 formou a sua primera orquestra “Astor Piazzolla y su Orquestra Típica” .Contudo, esta não era a sua meta .Queria, antes de tudo explorar o bandoneón , impedi-lo de ser o “instrumento” de uma orquestra de baile e devolver ao bandoneón a sua nobreza , transformando-o num instrumento clássico. Começa então a compôr obras clássicas para o bandoneón. Em 1986, Piazzola gravou com Gary Burton no Festival de Montreux a “Suite for Vibraphone and New Tango Quintet” o que desperta a admiração de grandes solistas de jazz como Pat Matheny, Keith Jarrett e Chick Corea. Em 1989 a revista de jazz Down Beat
classificou Piazzolla entre os melhores instrumentistas do mundo. Astor Piazzolla faleceu a 4 de Julho de 1992 , vítima de uma trombose cerebral, deixando um legado musical inestimável.
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GARY BURTON
Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone and, at the age of 17, made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins. Two years later, Burton left his studies at Berklee College of Music to join George Shearing and subsequently Stan Getz. Borrowing rhythms and sonorities from rock music, while maintaining jazz's emphasis on improvisation and harmonic complexity, Burton is considered the "father
of fusion jazz/rock". Burton also turned to the rarely heard duo format,recording with bassist Steve Swallow, guitarist Ralph Towner, and most notably with pianist Chick Corea. Also in the '70s, Burton began his career with Berklee College of
Music in Boston. Burton began as a teacher of percussion and improvisation classes at Berklee in 1971. In 1985 he was named Dean of Curriculum. In 1989, he received an honorary doctorate of music from the college, and in 1996, he was appointed Executive Vice President. Burton recorded his second collection of tango music,Astor Piazzolla Reunion, featuring the top tango musicians of Argentina, followed by Libertango in 2000,another collection of Piazzolla music. His most recent release in 2002 is a unique project with Makoto Ozone, his pianist collaborator of the past twenty years. In Virtuosi the pair explore the improvisational possibilities of classical themes including works by Brahms, Scarlatti, Ravel, Barber and others. In an unusual move, the Recording Academy nominated Virtuosi in the classical category of the Grammy awards, a unique honor for Gary. For the immediate future, Gary is going to be concentrating on performing with the NEXT GENERATIONS band. His most recent recording NEXT GENERATIONS was released in March of 2005 on Concord.
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ALBUM REVIEW
Recorded within eight weeks of Tango Zero Hour, the recording Astor Piazzolla voted, rightly, as his career's best, this Suite for Vibraphone and New Tango Quintet reaches similar heights of perfection. Vibraphonist Gary Burton
made high marks early in his career with the superquartet recording Duster (which featured guitar great Larry Coryell and jazz vets Steve Swallow on bass and Roy Haynes on drums) and the jazz expanse of Genuine Tong Funeral. With Piazzolla's last quintet, Burton creates a stirring, metallic counterpoint to the group's sliding melodies and gut-grabbing rushes of tango sensation. This is certainly no lighthearted dance music, much more brainily reaching for compositional
greatness while simultaneously staying physical. All the cylinders were firing during this live Montreux Festival recording. Piazzolla's energy has delicate brushstrokes and sweeping blasts, as does guitarist Hector Malvicino and the quintet's other
luminaries.
(By Andrew Bartlett)
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MINHA OPINIÃO
A exemplo do álbum "Reunion Cumbre", com Gerry Mulligan, Piazzola volta a gravar com outro gigante do Jazz: Gary Burton. Ao contrário daquele álbum, mais voltado para o jazz, este fica mais próximo da música erudita, sempre presente nas composições de Piazzola. Mais um grande álbum dessa inusitada "fusion-jazz-tango".
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ASTOR PIAZZOLA & GARY BURTON : THE NEW TANGO
Year: 1986
Recorded live at the Montreux Festival

PERSONNEL:
Piazzolla, Astor/Burton, Gary
Musicians: Piazzolla (Astor) - bandoneon
Burton (Gary) - vibes
Ziegler (Pablo) - piano
Suarez Paz (Fernando) - violin
Malvicino (Horacio) - guitar
Console (Hector) - bass

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
01- Milonga is coming
02-Vibraphonissimo (*)
03-Little Italy 1930
04-Nuevo Tango
05- Laura's dream
06- Operation Tango
07- Muerte del Angel

All compositions by Astor Piazzolla except where noted. (*)