Tango

Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet Nicolas Enrich, bandoneon Abel Rogantini, piano Pablo Aslan, bass Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla, drums In 1959, Astor Piazzolla, then living in New York City, assembled a quintet of studio musicians and recorded Take Me Dancing. It was to be the birth of jazz [...]

Raúl Jaurena is one of the world’s premier performers of the bandoneón, the button squeezebox that is the quintessential tango instrument. His Soundbrush recording Te Amo Tango, which featured many of his own innovative New Tango compositions, won a 2007 Latin Grammy Award. It was followed [...]

Pasión por la Vida is an album of original tangos by pianist and composer Roger Davidson, performed in a duet with Soundbrush’s Latin Grammy Award-winning Raúl Jaurena on bandoneón. This is Davidson’s third album of tangos, but his first featuring a program comprised entirely of [...]

Winner of the 2007 Latin Grammy for Best Tango Album, Te Amo Tango was born of  Uruguayan master bandoneonist Raul Jaurena’s successful show featuring the talented Sinopus String Quintet from Uruguay, pianist Octavio  Brunetti and vocalist Marga Mitchell at the Thalia Spanish Theater in New York City  [...]

The tango’s mystique lives on, attracting musicians as diverse as the two stars of this CD. Roger Davidson is a New York-based pianist and composer of orchestral and choral works, jazz, and world music. Argentine native, Pablo Aslan is a gifted bassist and director of [...]