Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla! – review

(Jazz Village)France's Orchestre National de Jazz, under composer/director Daniel Yvinec, subscribes to no state-orchestra orthodoxy of recycling the tried and trusted. In recent years the band have explored the idiosyncrasies of songwriter Robert Wyatt and the jazz, classical and fusion splicings of US bandleader John Hollenbeck. Now it's the turn of the late Ástor Piazzolla, whose dark love songs and glowering tangos have been arranged by revered composer-pianist Gil Goldstein. Typically for ...

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