Heh...yeah, I know what you are saying. But here in Florida (Tallahassee, Tampa, Sarasota, Gainesville - except for Tango y Te') they usually slip in some ALT or Nuevo - maybe 5%.
El Stevito de Gainesville RonTango wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > >> From: Steve Littler <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Fw: Astor Piazzolla & 50 Essential Tangos for $1.99 >> starting tonight >> >> Well, I bought it and for me, I DON'T see it as essential for >> traditional dancers. The early stuff with Gardel is scratchy. The >> Piazolla is from a live album. A lot of the other stuff has more of a >> piano bar/jazz feeling to me. There is NOTHING in the collection that I >> have ever heard at a traditional milonga here in Florida. (Whenever I >> have heard a Piazolla tanda at a traditional milonga here in Florida, it >> was a studio cut - NOT a live cut.) Nuevo fans might find a few cuts they >> like. >> El Stevito de Gainesville >> > > Piazzolla is not played at traditional milongas - only tango music from the > tango dance orchestras of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, with an occasional tanda of > a modern orchestra (after 1960) playing in that style. This is what is played > in the overwhelming majority of milongas in Buenos Aires. It is the music, in > part, that defines a milonga as 'traditional', although using that label for > a milonga is as redundant as using 'Argentine tango' to describe the tango > danced in Buenos Aires milongas. The deviations from the cultural tradition > are what need the modifiers - 'alternative milongas' and 'nuevo (tango)'. > > Ron > .. > > > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
