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Next week Live at Karamel…
Karamel.London
Thursday 21st of October at 8pm
TWO OF A MIND
Exploring afresh the freewheeling, wonderfully melodic interpretat…
Next week Live at Karamel…
Karamel.London
Thursday 14th of October at 8pm
The Jon Onabowu Trio
Strap in for an eclectic night of live music with The Jon O…
Photo credit: Andrew Mason
Collage Arts are thrilled to present live music at Karamel with Ann Liebeck’s Locked Down Sonnets CD launch…
The artists present…
investigates singer Ann Liebeck’s plans to celebrate the tango master on his centenary…tonight:
Astor Piazzolla took the dance music of Argentina to a world stage. On the centenary of his birth, a show devised by soprano
Ann Liebeck,
Violetta’s Last Tango, salutes his genius.
Every style of music has its visionaries – artists who go beyond the limits of a genre to explore new sound worlds. Jazz has Charlie Parker and Miles Davis for starters; pop has Lennon-McCartney and maybe Brian Wilson or Bowie or Kraftwerk – but I’ll leave you to argue that one.
In the sensual, rhythmic realm of Argentinian tango there is one undisputed master – Astor Piazzolla who in the 1950s and ’60s emerged as king of nuevo tango. Incorporating jazz and classical harmonies and enlisting new instruments – saxophones, the electric guitar – he raised the music born in the backstreets of Buenos Aires to a new level of artistry. Like Parker or Miles, Piazzolla was initially scorne