Ann Liebeck ('Violetta's Last Tango' Celebrating the Astor Piazzolla Centenary) – News, reviews, features and comment from the London jazz scene and beyond
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, rhythmi...
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