[Tango-L] On music tango groups and milongas

[Alberto Gesualdi]

this is my tentative lists, and some explanation or side stories
 
as a remark number Zero : few milongas, if any, can afford here in buenos aires, the cost to have a live orchestra . The entrance fee for a milonga is in between AR$ 15 and AR$ 25/30 ( usd 4 to usd 6/7)  . this cost, does not cover the payment of the ochestra fees plus the interpeters fee, since now, they ( the musicians) have their rights as union , legallized, so, if you bring in, an orchestra live, the legal status, is you as organizer of a milonga, are making a one night legal contract with the musicians, and have to pay them, besides their fees, the social welfare and other legal charges.
Once said this, there is a popular sauing in Argentina " hecha la ley, hecha la trampa / laws are to be readed not to be followed", so musicians are invited on an impromptu basis, or they appear on their own as a courtesy/gauchada, or , yes, sometimes, the local goverment pay the fees and send the musicians or gathered them all, as is happening now, once in the year, at this tango festival
 
now comments on list of musicians playing at milongas, I see is a bit long my comment, so, follow first part , then second and third separately, regarding new groups and other musicians 
alberto
 
1) old musicians playing together
    d arienzo style : los reyes del compas, los reyes del tango, los solistas de d arienzo 
    canaro : quinteto pirincho under the direction of Jorge Dragone http://www.quintetopirincho.com.ar/
    di sarli: gente de tango ,singer Hector Moran. http://www.gentedetango.com.ar/home.htm
    calo/maderma : sans souci http://es-la.facebook.com/people/Orquesta-Tipica-Sans-Souci/100001783164650
    pugliese ..well, is too much, there is a "pugliese galaxy" going around, Color Tango Roberto Alvarez, Color Tango Amilcar Tolosa, Beba Pugliese orchestra, Carla Pugliese orchestra ( my memory is non gallant, it flashes in first time not the ladies, shame on my neurotransmiters...), Rodolfo Mederos ?? I am not sure where to put Mederos, since he played with Don Osvaldo, but later evolve to many shapes and formations ... Well, let`s say Mederos is "Decariano" as Pugliese , Troilo and Piazzola , and that 's it. 
     troilo style : definitely, Carlos Garello orchestra . He is a master bandoneonist ( and one of the bandoneons from Pichuco were given to him by Pichucos wife, Zita ). I think, Garello, more and more, is becoming troilean in his sounding.
    leopoldo federico and his orchestra. it takes him a lot of work to gather the musicians, since it is not easy to cover the fees, but, when they assemble, only lack Julio Sosa .
    mariano mores and his clan . although he made a farewell concert on year 2006, he is still playing
 
       ****if I miss something important, is because this is not a research , just a memento of how many good and oldies we still have , thank you tango goblin ***   I miss a lot Emilio Balcarce and  Julian Plaza  , also  Sexteto Mayor with Stazo and 
De: Shahrukh Merchant <shahrukh at shahrukhmerchant.com>
Para: tango-l at mit.edu
Enviado: viernes, 26 de agosto de 2011 11:07
Asunto: Re: [Tango-L] Report No. 5 on the Tango Festival & Mundial Buenos Aires August 2011

"Trini y Sean \(PATangoS\)" <patangos at yahoo.com> asks:

> When the musicians have been playing for dancers, how have they've
> been arranging their music?  In tandas or have they've been mixing it
> up?

If you're referring to musicians at the festival, as you seem to be, I 
will re-emphasize that musicians at the festivals have generally NOT 
been playing for dancers at all (other than at the opening milonga), nor 
have been expected to do so. So no, the concept of tandas was largely 
irrelevant for 90% of the live music being played at the festival.

The Grand Opening milonga did feature Los Reyes del Tango. I wasn't 
there, so I don't know what they played there, but Los Reyes usually 
does not play in tandas, so I'd guess they didn't at the festival. 
Sexteto Milonguero will be playing at the Closing Milonga on Sunday 
afternoon, and they sometimes do play vaguely in tandas at regular 
milongas, but since there will be a larger listening crowd than a 
dancing crowd, I'm not sure what they will do there.

There are two Tango worlds in Buenos Aires--that of the music and that 
of the dance (and they seem to overlap nowadays only slightly). Most 
tourist (including those who come to dance Tango) completely miss the 
first, other than what they might hear at a Tango show or at a milonga 
that features live music, but this barely scratches the surface. A lot 
of it does seem to be underground, with no formal mechanism for 
disseminating information. One of the great things about this festival 
is that it brought the two worlds together, or at least under one roof, 
so that those mostly on one side could get visibility into the other.

If you're referring to Tango orchestras in general in Buenos Aires, 
mostly they do not play in tandas at all, except to some extent for the 
few orchestras that have one or more social Tango dancers among the 
musicians (e.g., Sexteto Milonguero and Orquesta Mariano Bujacich, among 
others). Generally then, an announcement of the previous or following 
tanda takes the place of a cortina.

Shahrukh
_______________________________________________
Tango-L mailing list
Tango-L at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l