4 - Jorge Retamoza & Tango XXX
Jorge Retamoza is a singular artist:
The specialists and the press consider him as an avant garde artist, nevertheless, some tunes from his repertoire were composed in the decades of ' 20 and of ' 30. The program of his shows includes several very popular tunes. To interpret them, he assembled a group of musicians with a very solid career and experience |
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We will not find two equal shows: the jazz gestures and the improvisation move comfortable in the structures of Buenos Aires’ music.
He considers to the tango, the classical music of Buenos Aires and dedicates to the rhythms from Río de La Plata his artistic life. In his presentations, Arolas coexists with the Gato Barbieri, Gardel with Piazzolla. Every piece is crossed by elements of the contemporary music.
The listeners of his shows and records have the sensation of being experience at a new thing. One who respects the history and the essence of the Buenos Aires’ music and, simultaneously, he shows a way of evolution. They manage to glimpse today the Tango that comes.
Piazzolla's legacy - compositions of him and his spirit are a constant and palpable presence in the scene stage - in hands of a respectful, unquiet and creative musician.
Composition:
In his activity like academic composer, he wrote works for bandoneon and six percussionists, as “En Blanco y negro Buenos Aires”, and symphonic works like the “Concierto para saxo tenor, bandoneón y orquesta". Another chamber works: for piano and viola as “Encuentro en Buenos Aires”; and for piano, cello and clarinet, “Buenos Aires Esmeralda”.
He has realized arrangements for strings quartet and quintet and for saxophone quartets.
All these works have been released, interpreted and recorded by soloists and groups of Argentina, USA and Europe.
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He has composed music for TV's and broadcast shows, for exhibitions and performances realized in art galleries and museums. He is one of the founder members of Undersax, saxophone quartet who was endorsement by Rico International. This quartet played original arrangements and compositions wrote specially for this group.
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The repertoire of the quartet was including contemporary jazz and, original works for saxophone quartet. This work remains expressed in the qualified CD “Paroxismo”.
As a player:
In 1998 he obtains by contest the baritone sax chair for the Symphonic Band of Buenos Aires. He has played, toured and recorded through Argentine and South America with the most remarkable pop and rock bands from Argentine, and with international award stars like Sandro, Celia Cruz and Isabel Pantoja. He integrated numerous jazz groups and big bands, playing with the principal argentine musicians of this style. Even he took master classes with Bob Mintzer, Jim Snidero, Miguel Villafruela He took part in recordings movies, jingles, and in music hall orchestras, playing all saxophone family and clarinet.
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is a group shaped by Argentine musicians, which taking to the tango as the first expression, incorporates gestures of the jazz and the contemporary music. The result is a music called style "post-Piazzolla" or “New Tango ", which establishes this way a continuity to the work begun by Astor Piazzolla.
This group has edited the following CDs: Tango XXX, Violentango, Policial Argentino, Balvanera, Impresionismo porteño
- with the endorsement by Buenos Aires Fund of Culture- Como aquellos and the recent Vientos de Tango
The repertoire is mainly original music of his director, some arrangements of tunes of Piazzolla and Rovira and a few tango standards that the group uses as vehicles for the improvisation, but original music occupy the core of the digest.
Alejandro Kalinoski: piano Lautaro Guida: double-bass Jorge Retamoza: saxes, composition,
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From the last years, the group plays regularly in Argentina and South America, appearing in festivals of tango and jazz – Mar del Jazz, Jazz y Otras Músicas, Jóven Guardia del Tango, Tango del Siglo 21, Tango 06, Buenos Aires Festival de Tango, National Library Hall, National Fund of The Arts, Cultural Centers, MAC, and TV shows.
Even toured two times (2002-2003) along Spain (Barcelona, Reus, Coruña, Santiago, Lugo, Vigo, Pontevedra, Madrid) where the group played twenty concerts and dates.
