126 Classics of Tango Dance Music
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:09:45 -0500
From: Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Subject: Classics of Tango Dance Music
The Tango Argentino de Tejas website now has a list of the classic tangos,
milongas and valses for social dancing as
recommended by tango dancers and DJs from around the world. Development of
the list is an ongoing project. To access the current version of the list
go to:
https://www.tejastango.com/classic_tangos.html
With best regards,
Steve
Tango Argentino de Tejas
https://www.tejastango.com/
Tango Argentino de Tejas is a non-commerical online resource information
about Argentine tango including reviews of instructional videos, guides to
tango music, articles about learning and dancing tango, and links.
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:22:24 -0500
From: Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Subject: Re: Classics of Tango Dance Music
One of the issues in developing a list of classic of tangos dance music
<https://www.tejastango.com/classic_tangos.html> is assessing recording
quality and availability. If the list is to be useful to the readership,
it ought to consist of great tango, milonga and vals music on readily
available CDs with the highest sound quality.
With sound quality in mind, I listed a number of Troilo recordings as
coming from *Instrumental* (Tango Argentino BMG-RCA) and
*Troilo/Fiorentino* (Solo Tango BMG-RCA) rather than the much lower
fidelity *El Inmortal Pichuco* (El Bandoneon). The El Bandoneon release is
actually somewhat more available because it can be found in some stores.
The other two recordings have to be mail ordered from places like Classic
Tango in the United States <https://www.classictango.com>, or milonga.co.uk
in the United Kingdom <https://www.milonga.co.uk>, or Zival's in Buenos
Aires <https://www.tangostore.com/>. For a tango enthusiast, that is
probably not too much trouble.
With availability in mind, I change the source listed for three Fresedo
tangos from private CD-R to 40 Grandes Exitos (Los Grandes Orquestas del
Tango Blue Moon) as Mike Lavocah suggested in his posting to Tango-L
"Tigre Viejo de Osvaldo Fresedo".
For those recordings where the only available CD has gone out of print, I
have retained the listing because it remains the best source. People can
frequently find out-of-print CDs (such as Disco Latina or Music Hall) if
they know to look for them. I will have to update some of the listings now
that the Music Hall label seems to have gone out of production and is
becoming increasingly difficult to find. I am having trouble bringing
myself to do this, however, because for the tracks that I have listed as
being on the Carlos Di Sarli CD *Milonguero Viejo* (Music Hall), the Music
Hall release has much better fidelity than the same tangos on Instrumental
(Tango Argentino BMG-RCA).
For some tangos, privately issued CD-Rs seem to be the only available
source and I have listed them. Privately issued CD-Rs need be no less
ethical than the El Bandoneon and Blue Moon commercial releases. The
copyrights have expired on the original material, and most of the musicians
are deceased. In producing their CDs, El Bandoneon and Blue Moon have
relied on 78 records. The privately issued CD-Rs that I have heard are
also compiled from old records. The sound quality ranges from terrible to
better as on the early El Bandoneon releases. Availability is a little
more difficult issue. Privately issued CD-Rs are typically only available
from the individual producer. But in this electronic age, contacting and
ordering CDs directly from some producers is relatively easy. To obtain,
the CDs that I list as Mario #6, #8, etc., one has to go to Buenos Aires
and find Mario or have a friend who is willing to do so.
Clearly much more work remains to be done to make the list of classics of
tango dance music the best resource it can be. I opened it for public
viewing in a beta state with the idea that it would never be perfect and
that public scrutiny would help improve it as a resouce. So far, a dozen
people have contributed to the list, and I most grateful. I have not
listed their names because I recognize that the project is far from
complete in its current state.
With best regards,
Steve
Stephen Brown
Tango Argentino de Tejas
https://www.tejastango.com/
----- Forwarded by Stephen P Brown/DAL/FRS on 08/02/01 12:40 PM -----
Stephen P
Brown To: Tango-L@mitvma.mit.edu
cc:
08/01/01 Subject: Classics of Tango Dance Music
01:09 PM
The Tango Argentino de Tejas website now has a list of the classic tangos,
milongas and valses for social dancing as
recommended by tango dancers and DJs from around the world. Development of
the list is an ongoing project. To access the current version of the list
go to:
https://www.tejastango.com/classic_tangos.html
With best regards,
Steve
Tango Argentino de Tejas
https://www.tejastango.com/
Tango Argentino de Tejas is a non-commerical online resource information
about Argentine tango including reviews of instructional videos, guides to
tango music, articles about learning and dancing tango, and links.
