AVANTANGO

Jazz @ Lincoln Center presents:

“Tango Salon”

Featuring Pablo Aslan, Paquito D’Rivera and guest artists

March 26-27, 2010, 8p.m., Rose Theater

For over two decades, bassist, composer and bandleader Pablo Aslan has melded the elegance and melancholy of classic Argentine tango with the American jazz language.  Guest artist Paquito D’Rivera and a unique cast of Argentine musicians join Tango Jazz pioneer Aslan to play the intricate rhythms of the tango.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center
Frederick P. Rose Hall: Broadway at 60th Street
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Featuring
Direct from Argentina - Only New York appearance:

Nicolas Ledesma, piano
Abel Rogantini, piano
Pablo Agri, violin

Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet
Daniel Piazzolla, drums

and featuring

Raul Jaurena, bandoneon

Michael Zisman, bandoneon

Special Guest Artist: Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet, sax

Pablo Aslan, bass, Music Director

New CD

Pablo Aslan Tango Grill (Zoho ZM 201003)

Street Date March 9, 2010 MORE INFORMATION

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Pablo Aslan, bass; Nestor Marconi, bandoneon; Nicolas Ledesma, piano ;
Abel Rogantini, piano; Ramiro Gallo, violin; Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet;
Daniel Piazzolla, drums

Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring a superb ensemble of tango and jazz musicians, “Tango Grill,” the new recording by Argentine-born, New York-based bassist Pablo Aslan, is a brilliant follow up to “Buenos Aires Tango Standards” (Zoho Music, 2007).

A pioneer and leading figure in tango jazz, a growing new style that blends the repertoire, instrumentation and vocabulary of tango with elements of jazz, Aslan set out here to reinvent twelve 20th century tango classics on the fly. The result is tradition with a razor’s edge.

The very title, “Tango Grill,” alludes to a la parrilla, which translates literally as the grill, but it’s also the bandstand term tango musicians use for improvised arrangements.

Aslan’s group in “Tango Grill” includes established tango masters such as bandoneón player Nestor Marconi and young pianist Nicolas Ledesma. But also drummer Daniel Piazzolla, the grandson of the late New Tango master Astor Piazzolla, and himself a leading figure in tango jazz as both player and bandleader, and trumpeter, composer and bandleader Gustavo Bergalli, an early believer in tango jazz.

The music in “Tango Grill” is not a fusion, in which the total is usually less than the sum of the parts, but rather, it suggests a musical bilingualism. For these musicians, this is lived-in music, the sum of a lifetime in both tango dancehalls and jazz clubs.

Pablo Aslan has performed and recorded with Grammy Award Winners Yo Yo Ma, Shakira, Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Paquito D’Rivera, Lalo Schifrin, Pablo Ziegler, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Todo Tango: AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH ARTURO O’FARRILL

Special guest: Pablo Aslan

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Imagine the cabarets of Buenos Aires and the intimate jazz clubs of New York under one roof—in the House of Swing. Argentinean bassist and composer Pablo Aslan fuses sultry tango with cool jazz rhythms. He’s joined by the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill

The Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with guest artists Gustavo Bergalli, Daniel Binelli, Pablo Aslan.

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“There’s been a raft of tango albums from classical performers trying to give a different spin on Argentina’s musical gift to the world. But no really successful jazz spin on the tango until now. Aslan, a native of Buenos Aires, (…) has created a thoroughly-realized amalgam of both musical forms. A fascinating project and totally successful musically!” AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

“Led by double bassist Pablo Aslan, the ensemble brings us the best of both worlds as they rely on beautiful melodies to create a mood before launching into powerful improvisation.

The themes are clearly defined, while each improvised adventure comes complete with thrills and beauty. Recommended, Aslan’s Jazz/Tango project works wonders on the soul.” CADENCE

“Aslan creates improvisatory alchemy with artists at home in both genres. A subtle convergence results as the milonga and guajira roots of these familiar classics sound through in a brilliant jazz quintet setting. Tango as Miles, Coltrane, Evans and Chambers might have conceived it.” GLOBAL RHYTHM

“Pablo will continue to define the tango idiom in his musically inimitable way…Pablo Aslan..The right man….In the right way…At the right time for tango jazz.” EJAZZNEWS

“Buenos Aires Tango Standards is a leap forward from his well-received Avantango and a work, unlike many “fusion” projects, that so completely and artfully integrates two musical worlds, here tango and jazz, that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. (…) a string of delicate numbers with all the characteristic elegance and melancholy of classic tango. From the level of play to the artistic conception, there is nothing “standard” about this work and that is both its strength and beauty.” JAZZ TIMES

“You may read about merging jazz with tango, or jazzing up tango, but the real goal here is to push tango to unimagined extremes.” TOM HULL (Village Voice) Pick Hits

“We’re in a golden age of jazz-tango fusion, and bassist Pablo Aslan is one of the main reasons. (…) His pulsing lines are the heartbeat of a new music.” JAZZIZ

“This is a very special recording, capturing the inherent longing of Tango and contextualizing it in a completely up-to-date jazz idiom. Quite an accomplishment.”

“Pablo Aslan, on his second release, proves he’s the absolute master of the New Tango. What we’ve got here is a very compelling blend of Tango and jazz, certainly never before so forcefully and beguiling presented. The results are nothing less that spectacular.” AMAZON.COM

Jim Seeley, trumpet

Noah Bless, trombone

Oscar Feldman, saxophone

Victor Prieto, accordion

Emilio Solla, piano

Pablo Aslan, bass

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Adrian Iaies, piano

Michael Zysman, bandoneon

Juan Cruz de Urquiza, trumpet

Pablo Aslan, bass

Pepi Taveira, drums

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