Tango Jazz Quartet (Arg) LIVE on 15 aug in Manufactura

Tango Jazz Quartet (Arg) LIVE in Manufactura

Without ever leaving the territory of jazz, a combo that goes from traditional tango to the music of Astor Piazzola.
Tango Jazz Quartet (TJQ) from Argentina, mixes the melodic and rhythmic patterns of Tango with the harmonies and improvisation of Jazz. This new approach to tango and jazz has received an enthusiastic response both in Argentina and abroad. The Tango Jazz Quartet's music goes from traditional tango to Astor Piazzola's music without ever leaving the territory of jazz.
Saxophonist and clarinettist Gustavo Firmenich, leader of the TJQ, recreated with this group dances during the golden age of tango in Buenos Aires, where tango and jazz coexisted although they play separately. Tango Jazz Quartet proposed a fusion of what the two genres have in common and added something distinctive of jazz that was lacking in tango: improvisation.
This musical concept is very well received by very different audiences around the world. "This is the first time I've heard a fusion of Jazz and Tango that works and makes sense," said world- renowned French accordionist Richard Galliano of the Tango Jazz Quartet.
With 20 international tours and more than 25 countries visited, Tango Jazz Quartet performed in the most prestigious venues of the world like San Jose Summer Jazz Festival, San Jose California, Shanghai Jazz Festival, Nisville International Jazz Festival, Serbia; Tango and Jazz Festival, Tomsk, Russia, Hong Kong Jazz Festival, Joy of Jazz Festival, Johannesburg; Smalls Jazz Club, New York; Sunset-Sunside, Paris; Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Music Village Jazz Club, Brussels; Snug Harbor, New Orleans, BFlat, Berlin, Harris Piano Jazz, Krakow, The Verdict Jazz Club, Brighton & The Loft, Cologne among others.
During his last international tour in 2018, his presentation at the prestigious Smalls Jazz Club, his concert with Vincent Giordano's Big Band (musician of several films by Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola), which addressed the themes of the quartet repertoire, were highlighted. and the invitation of the prestigious trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis to play with his quintet of songs from the repertoire of the Tango Jazz Quartet.
This year the band visits Europe for 11th time and will perform for the first time at Manufatura as part of their European summer tour, in which they will visit 12 countries in Western and Eastern Europe. performing more than 40 concerts.
Group members:
Gustavo Firmenich, tenor sax and clarinet
Horacio Acosta, piano
Federico Hilal, electric bass
Alejandro Beelmann, drums

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