The Argentine jazz sextet offers a unique concert recital at the Teatro Colón for the 50th anniversary of the release of Astor Piazzolla’s emblematic albums, “Libertango” and “Reunión Cumbre.”
The Argentine jazz sextet Escalandrum will perform a single concert at the Teatro Colón for the 50 years of the publication of the emblematic albums of Astor Piazzolla, ““Libertango” and “Summit Meeting”, on Monday the 21st at 7:30 p.m. In the year in which Escalandrum They are celebrating their 25 years of experience, the largest venue in Argentina called them to cover works from these two notable albums on the half-century anniversary of their release, and which they will present in a single concert. Its members with Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla on battery, Nicolas Guerschberg on piano and arrangements, Mariano Sivori on double bass, Gustavo Musso on alto sax, Damián Fogiel on tenor saxophone and Martin Pantyrer on bass clarinet and baritone sax.
Says Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla from Escalandrum: “This important concert at the Teatro Colón celebrates the 50th anniversary of these two great albums by my grandfather, and also our 25th anniversary. We are preparing the entire repertoire for this double celebration that will be called Piazzolla ’74 in a theater like the Colón, very important for us and for my own history, since I accompanied my grandfather to the concert he gave there in the year 83; That night he gave me a program in which he wrote that at that concert he felt he had triumphed. For my grandfather, the Teatro Colón was always the best, his dream was to be a classical music composer, then he crossed paths with Nadia Boulanger in France and everything changed, but he always kept that love for classical music. We are united by a strong bond with Colón, with unforgettable moments: we played on my grandfather’s birthday in 2021, and it was a huge emotion. You can enjoy incredible acoustics, where each instrument sounds like never before. We are rehearsing songs like “Years of Solitude”, “Close your eyes and listen”, or “Deus Xango”. It is a repertoire that is not very well traveled, that is not played as much.”
Escalandrum was born in 1999 and retains its original line-up, with more than forty countries toured and fifteen albums released, with original sound and its powerful live attitude. The group was distinguished in 2005 by the Konex Foundation as one of the hundred most outstanding figures of the last decade of Argentine Popular Music. In 2008 it was the guest group of Dave Holland in our country. In 2010 he made several international tours and was the first Argentine artist invited to participate in the Bridgestone Music Festival in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2011 he was nominated for a Latin Grammy, sharing the shortlist with Chick Korea and Al Di Meola. In 2012 he was the winner of the Gardel de Oro Award (the highest distinction in the Argentine music industry) and the Gardel Award for Best Jazz Album (for his album “Piazzolla plays Piazzolla”). In 2014 they played with the former Megadeth Marty Friedman. In 2015 they received the Konex Platinum Jazz Group Award and participated in the Barcelona Grec Festival (guest: Concha Buika) as well as at the International Biennale of Rio de Janeiro. In 2016 they presented the album “3001”, recorded with Elena Roger and played at the China International Folk Arts Festival. In 2017 they launched “ION Sessions – Works by Mozart and Ginastera” with acclaimed impact from the public and press.
Likewise, they participated in the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, the Montreal International Festival, the Grec Barcelona Festival, the Worldsotck Paris Festival, the Oslo World Music Festival and toured Israel. In 2018, they presented “Studio 2”, an album recorded at Abbey Road studios in London. In 2019 they celebrated their twenty years of life with important concerts such as Lollapalooza and the Teatro Ópera, while their album “Studio 2” was awarded in three categories of the Gardel Awards (Recording of the Year, Recording Engineering and Best Recording Album). Jazz). In 2022, he was nominated for the Gardel de Oro, his album “100” received the award for Best Orchestral Tango Album and he represented the country at the Dubai World Fair. In 2023 they recorded the soundtrack for the feature film “Empieza el baile”, directed by Mariana Seresevsky and starring Jorge Marrale, Mercedes Morán and Dario Grandinettisoundtrack that was awarded at the Turkish Film Festival. 2024 finds them celebrating their 25 years of experience with a new album Escalectric (Warner Music) and with the publication of a book that recreates their story written by journalist Fernando Ríos and published by Gourmet Musical.
Source: Ambito
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