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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195127773

ISBN-139780195127775

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Book TitleGrand Tango : the Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla

Number of Pages350 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicComposers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Dance

Publication Year2000

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMaría Susana Azzi, Simon Collier

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Reviews"Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar' ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet"A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger"Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger, "The first English-language biography of Piazzolla, the book blendsnarrative, anecdote, and musical analysis, offering a vivid portrait of thisbrillant, flamboyant figure."--Nashville Scene, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar´ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet"A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger"Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Maria Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger "Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page ofLe Grand Tangobring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger "Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar´ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page ofLe Grand Tangobring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger "Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "Azzi, a board member of the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires,and Collier, author of seven books on Latin America, provide both personal andprofessional details and musical analysis. This first biography in English, withdiscography...and extensive notes, will be valuable for collections focusing onworld music or Latin American culture."--Library Journal "Revolutionary tangomaster Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now,Maria Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details abouthis life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla'spersonality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire,determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington,Kronos Quartet, "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian masterof the bandoneon. Piazolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awewhith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universalmusic."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar'ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger "Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar´ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet "A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger "Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist, "With clarity and concision, Azzi and Collier document Piazzolla's journeyin each of its phases and connect all the map's interpersonal dots...'Le GrandTango' relays much-needed facts regarding one fo the last century's mostuniversal artists, to the authors' enduring credit."--Billboard, "Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, onethat I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelingsand Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis andrealize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazzguitarist, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a mythright before our eyes. Now, Maria Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthedsignificant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tangobring's Piazolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder ofhow much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create truebeauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet, The first full-length life of the composer in English.... A welcome bookthat helps to right the great imbalance between the popularity of Piazzolla'smusic and the dearth of reliable writing on his life. In particualar, thisbiography is laudable for its detailed chronicle of Piazzolla's performancecareer.:--The New Republic|9780195127775|, "Revolutionary tango master Astor Piazolla is quickly becoming a myth right before our eyes. Now, Mar´ ia Susanna Azzi and Simon Collier have unearthed significant details about his life and music. Every page of Le Grand Tango bring's Piazzolla's personality vividly to life and is an eloquent reminder of how much desire, determination, and devilry it takes to create true beauty."--David Harrington, Kronos Quartet"A remarkable document about the life and music of the Argentinian master of the bandoneon. Piazzolla understood my passion for jazz, and I was in awe whith his approach to tango, which he expanded to become a universal music."--Lalo Schifrin, composer and arranger"Astor and I developed a relationship as friends and mutual admirers, one that I'll always treasure. His music reflected and spoke to my deepest feelings and Italian roots. I think about and listen to Astor on a daily basis and realize how profound an influence he has been on my life!"--Al DiMeola, jazz guitarist

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SynopsisThis is the first full-scale biography of Argentinian composer and bandleader Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), the great pioneer of avant-garde tango music. Piazzolla was a supreme master of the bandoneon, the accordianlike instrument at the heart of the characteristic tango sound. His compositions opened up the tango style to incorporate influences from jazz and 20th century classical music. After years of hard struggle, he succeeded in winning wild acclaim from audiences in North and South America, Europe, and Japan; in 1997 Billboard magazine described him as "the hottest composer around.", Astor Piazzolla was a musical genius, a man who used the national dance of Argentina as raw material for a whole new musical genre. In Le Grand Tango, Maria Susana Azzi and Simon Collier vividly capture the life of this extraordinary musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim, but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. Azzi and Collier trace Piazzolla's early life from his birth in Argentina in 1921 to his childhood years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he first developed a talent for the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument central to the tango. They describe his return to Argentina at age 16 and his rapid rise in the intoxicating world of tango, where he quickly earned a place with the leading dance band, and then formed his own group. But at the height of his success, Piazzolla decided to take tango music to a new level and studied composition with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier show how he created a dramatically new style of tango music influenced by jazz and classical pieces--a tango music meant for listening, not dancing. But they also show that, in the birthplace of the tango, he met fierce resistance. He eventually left Argentina for Europe, where he emerged as an international celebrity. Since Piazzolla's death in 1992, his influence has only grown. Jazz giants such as Gary Burton and Al Di Meola--and classical stars Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Daniel Barenboim--have all recorded albums of his works. Now Azzi and Collier have given us the first biography of this astonishingly gifted musician., Astor Piazzolla was a musical genius, a man who used the national dance of Argentina as raw material for a whole new musical genre. In Le Grand Tango, María Susana Azzi and Simon Collier vividly capture the life of this extraordinary musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim, but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. Azzi and Collier trace Piazzolla's early life from his birth in Argentina in 1921 to his childhood years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he first developed a talent for the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument central to the tango. They describe his return to Argentina at age 16 and his rapid rise in the intoxicating world of tango, where he quickly earned a place with the leading dance band, and then formed his own group. But at the height of his success, Piazzolla decided to take tango music to a new level and studied composition with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier show how he created a dramatically new style of tango music influenced by jazz and classical pieces--a tango music meant for listening, not dancing. But they also show that, in the birthplace of the tango, he met fierce resistance. He eventually left Argentina for Europe, where he emerged as an international celebrity. Since Piazzolla's death in 1992, his influence has only grown. Jazz giants such as Gary Burton and Al Di Meola--and classical stars Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Daniel Barenboim--have all recorded albums of his works. Now Azzi and Collier have given us the first biography of this astonishingly gifted musician., Astor Piazzolla was a musical genius, a man who used the national dance of Argentina as raw material for a whole new musical genre. In Le Grand Tango , María Susana Azzi and Simon Collier vividly capture the life of this extraordinary musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim, but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. Azzi and Collier trace Piazzolla's early life from his birth in Argentina in 1921 to his childhood years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he first developed a talent for the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument central to the tango. They describe his return to Argentina at age 16 and his rapid rise in the intoxicating world of tango, where he quickly earned a place with the leading dance band, and then formed his own group. But at the height of his success, Piazzolla decided to take tango music to a new level and studied composition with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier show how he created a dramatically new style of tango music influenced by jazz and classical pieces--a tango music meant for listening, not dancing. But they also show that, in the birthplace of the tango, he met fierce resistance. He eventually left Argentina for Europe, where he emerged as an international celebrity. Since Piazzolla's death in 1992, his influence has only grown. Jazz giants such as Gary Burton and Al Di Meola--and classical stars Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Daniel Barenboim--have all recorded albums of his works. Now Azzi and Collier have given us the first biography of this astonishingly gifted musician., Astor Piazzolla was a musical genius, a man who used the national dance of Argentina as raw material for a whole new musical genre. In Le Grand Tango, Maria Susana Azzi and Simon Collier vividly capture the life of this extraordinary musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim, but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. Azzi and Collier trace Piazzolla's early life from his birth in Argentina in 1921 to his childhood years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he first developed a talent for the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument central to the tango. They describe his return to Argentina at age 16 and his rapid rise in the intoxicating world of tango, where he quickly earned a place with the leading dance band, and then formed his own group. But at the height of his success, Piazzolla decided to take tango music to a new level and studied composition with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier show how he created a dramatically new style of tango music influenced by jazz and classical pieces--a tango music meant for listening, not dancing. But they also show that, in the birthplace of the tango, he met fierce resistance. He eventually left Argentina for Europe, where he emerged as an international celebrity. Since Piazzolla's death in 1992, his influence has only grown. Jazz giants such as Gary Burton and Al Di Meola--and classical stars Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Daniel Barenboim--have all recorded albums of his works. Now Azzi and Collier have given us the first biography of this astonishingly gifted musician."

LC Classification NumberML410.P579A99 2000