[Tango] Dancing after Saturday workshop, Music info

[Lois Donnay]

I just heard that the Square Roots will be back at the Eagles Club this
Saturday. I love these guys!  They play a great variety of blues, swing
and jazz, and are very versatile musicians. It is all quite danceable.
There will be swing dancers there as well. We’ll go there after the
Embellishments class Saturday. I’m not sure when we’ll leave here – last
Fourth Saturday workshop on floorcraft went past 2 hours – but I imagine
about 9:30. 
 
The Eagles club is on 25th and 25th Ave South – just a little east of
Minnehaha and a little north of Lake Street. It’s a rather nondescript
building. Big parking lot, big dance floor, cheap drinks, great music!
There’s a tip jar instead of a cover.
 
People asked at class this week for the following information:

Tango Musicians:


For Dance Music:

Carlos DiSarli played the walking beat of salon tango.  His music has
the slow, steady beats from the 50s universally used for learning tango.
It is some of the best milonguero music from the early 40s.  The
up-tempo DiSarli is played often in Buenos Aires.
Miguel Caló is an orchestra with a devoted following of Milongueros. His
orchestra was a launching pad for many of the worlds greatest tango
musicians. A large number of singers played with this band in the 40s,
and many milongueros like to dance to them. Featured vocalists are Raúl
Berón, Raúl Iriarte, Roberto Arrieta, and Alberto Podestá & Raul Berón.
These songs are heard often in the Buenos Aires milongas. 

 
Julio DeCaro was the band leader whose innovative arranging style
inspired the dramatic changes made later by Pugliese and  Piazzola. The
Pugliese band does modern versions of DeCaro’s greatest hits. This has
been called the roots of “tango for export.” buy.
Osvaldo Pugliese: Greatly loved dance orchestra loyal to the walking
beat of the salon, but heralded the beginning of tango as concert music.
Universally used by modern stage dancers to create choreography. 
Juan D’Arienzo was the “King of Swing” for tango orillero (complex
improvised figures). His music is played often at milongas in Buenos
Aires and the instrumental versions are the “classic” fast salon music.
This popular group produced hundreds of recordings, with great milongas
and waltzes
Aníbal Troilo is mythological in stature; the bandoneon player who
defines the instrument and “the” orchestra for “milongueros.” His
instrumental recordings from the early forties are played at almost
every milonga.  Troilo’s dance orchestra with a series of singers has
become favorites of the dance crowd. The milongas and waltzes are
classics, played frequently at the milongas.

Tango for Listening and Tango Nuevo

Astor Piazzolla:  Bandoneónist, composer, and arranger Astor Piazzolla
led a tango revolution that continues today. Until now this has often
been the tango music that audiences outside of Argentina are first
exposed to, which has led to some confusion among dancers and DJ’s. None
of this music is considered “danceable” at the milongas in Buenos Aires;
it is never played. Performers often choreograph, in both tango and
other dance to his music. Some has become popular for dancing in many
social dance circles outside of Buenos Aires. However, there is no rule.
Listen and try what you like, and disperse it among tried and true dance
favorites. Piazzolla’s career spanned five decades. He played the
bandoneón in Troilo’s great dance bands, and became the arranger of the
orchestra. He began his own dance orchestra in the late forties.
Tango Nuevo is the name for a dance style as well as music. The music is
the new age electrotango music produced by Gotan
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotan_Project>  Project, Tanghetto
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanghetto>  or
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo_Fondo_Tango_Club&action=
edit> Bajo Fondo Tango Club. Dancers may also dance to alternative
non-tango songs, especially in the younger tango communities of the US.
Some examples include Kevin Johansen
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Johansen> 's "Sur o no Sur," Tom
Waits <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits> ' "Chocolate Jesus,"
Kirsty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll>  Maccoll's "In
these shoes," and Louis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong>
Armstrong's "Kiss of Fire." The extremely different sound of this type
of music helps break familiar routines and tango codes to inspire the
innovation that dancers of the Tango Nuevo style are known for.
 
Lois Donnay
3142 1st Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 5408
612.822.8436
www.mndance.com
 
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