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Quinteto Urbano: Jazz Contempor
by Fernando Aita
Contemporary Jazz musicians in Argentina are looking back into the prosperous relations between jazz and tango. Some of them rescue popular tangos and approach to them from the formal treatment of jazz traditional combos (i.e. Adrián Iaies Trio, El Teceto). Some re-armonize old themes or recreate them by improvising over known melodic motives, as Luis Salinas. Others just pick out harmonic hues and rhythmic patterns or imitate the phrasings of a bandoneon or a milonga guitar, which Quinteto Urbano carries ...
read moreJuan Cruz de Urquiza: Quinteto Urbano and Beyond
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
In the late 90s and early aughts, trumpeter Juan Cruz de Urquiza led Quinteto Urbano, one of the bands that inaugurated the new Argentine jazz. He remains one of the most prominent players in Buenos Aires. Eric Benson: What's changed in Argentine jazz over the last ten years? Juan Cruz de Urquiza: A new kind of musician has appeared who's concerned not only with being a good improviser and a good craftsman, but also with composition, with exploration, with searching ...
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