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Piazzolla/ Mulligan - "Summit" Tribute at Gin Fizz Harlem

Courtesy of InstantSeats | Posted on April 16, 2019

Where

Gin Fizz Harlem
308 Lenox Avenue
New York, NY
Map
(212) 289-5550

When

Thu, September 12, 2019
9:00 PM

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About

Legendary meeting between Astor Piazzolla- the great guru of art-music tango- and the North American saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, considered among the most prominent members of the world music scene.

"Summit" is the first meeting of Tango with Jazz on an extraordinary high level. Gerry Mulligan and Astor Piazzolla knew each other from Paris in 1954, where Piazzolla studied with Nadia Boulanger and Mulligan played the Festival Salon du Jazz. It took them 20 years to make this album.

This is mostly dark and moody music, with a lot of tonal variety and a resolute refusal to fit into any of the handy pigeonholes: a one-off event, wholly successful....

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