Pablo Aslan, is a brilliant follow up to "Buenos Aires Tango Standards"....

Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring a superb ensemble of tango and jazz musicians, “Tango Grill,” the new recording by Argentine-born, New York-based bassist Pablo Aslan, is a brilliant follow up to "Buenos Aires Tango Standards" (Zoho Music, 2007).

A pioneer and leading figure in tango jazz, a growing new style that blends the repertoire, instrumentation and vocabulary of tango with elements of jazz, Aslan set out here to reinvent twelve 20th century tango classics on the fly. The result is tradition with a razor’s edge. The very title, “Tango Grill,” alludes to la parrilla, which translates literally as the grill, but it’s also the bandstand term tango musicians use for improvised arrangements.

Aslan’s group in “Tango Grill” includes established tango masters such as bandoneón player Nestor Marconi (the bandoneón is the melancholy sounding button squeezebox that is the quintessential tango instrument) and young pianist Nicolas Ledesma. But also drummer Daniel Piazzolla, the grandson of the late New Tango master Astor Piazzolla, and himself a leading figure in tango jazz as both player and bandleader, and trumpeter, composer and bandleader Gustavo Bergalli, an early believer in tango jazz. The music in “Tango Grill” is not a fusion, in which the total is usually less than the sum of the parts, but rather, it suggests a musical bilingualism. For these musicians, this is lived-in music, the sum of a lifetime in both tango dancehalls and jazz clubs.

Pablo Aslan has performed and recorded with Grammy Award Winners Shakira, Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Paquito D’Rivera, Lalo Schifrin, Pablo Ziegler, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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See Pabo Live at The Rose Theater / Pablo Aslan: Tango Salon
Featuring Pablo Aslan, New York Tango, Paquito D’Rivera and other guest artists
March 26-27, 2010, 8p.m., Rose Theater

For over two decades, bassist, composer and bandleader Pablo Aslan has melded the elegance and melancholy of classic Argentine tango with the American jazz language. Guest artist Paquito D’Rivera and a unique cast of Argentine musicians join Aslan and New York Tango to play the rhythms of the tango.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall: Broadway at 60th Street - http://www.jalc.org/
Featuring:
Nicolas Ledesma, piano
Abel Rogantini, piano
Pablo Agri, violin
Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet
Daniel Piazzolla, drums
Michael Zisman, bandonoen
Raul Jaurena, bandoneon

Pablo Aslan Argentine born bassist and producer.....

Argentine born bassist and producer Pablo Aslan directs Avantango, a tango-jazz ensemble featuring New York based Argentine musicians and dancers that performs throughout the United States. The CD “Avantango” (Zoho Music) was selected as one of the Best Albums of the Year, Critics Choice 2004 by JAZZIZ magazine. He recently spent several months performing and recording in Buenos Aires. His latest CD on Zoho Music "Buenos Aires Tango Standards" is a result of this experience, and features a unique blend of tango and jazz in performances of tango standards.

Aslan has performed and recorded with Yo Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Shakira, Lalo Schifrin, Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Paquito D’Rivera, Denyce Graves, Osvaldo Golijov, Pablo Ziegler, the New World Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness among many others, and on recordings for Sony, RCA, BMG, Chesky, Naxos, Tzadik, and others.

In April 2007 Pablo was a special guest in "Todo Tango", with Lincoln Center's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, directed by Arturo O'Farrill and special guests. He was guest artist in the 2005/06 season of Chamber Music at Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Northwest and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, alongside pianist/composer Lalo Schiffrin and bandoneonist Nestor Marconi in Schiffrin’s “Letters from Argentina”, the Aleph Records CD of which was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2006.

In 2005, Aslan colaborated with the French choral ensemble Ecume as musical director of their new tango-operita, “Tango du Couteau” in Montpellier, France and directed The Tango Group, with the composer and pianist Roger Davidson, releasing "Amor por el Tango" on th Soundbrush Records label.

In the 1990’s he was the founder and co-director of New York Buenos Aires Connection and New York Tango Trio with bandoneonist Raul Jaurena, with whom he produced several CDs and toured throughout the world. Pablo has been a featured artist of the Lincoln Center Institute since 1998 bringing tango performances to hundreds of children and educators in the New York area.

Program:
20 mar 2010 14:00
Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center Corona (Queens), New York
26 mar 2010 20:00
Jazz @ Lincoln Center - Rose Theater NYC, New York
27 mar 2010 20:00
Jazz @ Lincoln Center - Rose Theater NYC, New York

Influences:
In no particular order (well, yes, one tango one jazz, just for fun, and the ocassional western classical master): Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Horacio Salgan, Ornette Coleman, Osvaldo Pugliese, Duke Ellington, Alfredo Gobbi, Charles Mingus, Anibal Troilo, John Coltrane, Julio De Caro, Bill Evans, JS Bach, Nestor Marconi, Charlie Haden, Igor Stravinsky, Carlos Di Sarli, Paul Chambers, Hector Console, Oscar Pettiford, Kicho Diaz, Edgar Meyer, Alcides Rossi, Eddie Gomez, Giovanni Botessini, Osvaldo Berlinghieri, Keith Jarrett, Pablo Ziegler, Ethan Iverson, Carlos Gardel, Charlie Parker, Ludwig van Beethoven, Rodolfo Alchourron, Mark Helias, Lalo Schiffrin, Maurice Ravel, Raul Jaurena, Ben Goldberg, Pepe Motta, Frank London.


Pablo Aslan Quartet - Live in Buenos Aires

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