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7 - Tango and Jazz: Cross-Genre Relations in History and Practice

from Part I - Tango Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Julián Graciano
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

As a composer/practitioner, Julián Graciano offers insights into tango as a transnational musical form by analyzing the performance element of spontaneity and improvisation in two musical genres typically associated with the United States and Argentina, namely jazz and tango respectively. Graciano shows show how the two genres have impacted each other in sound, style, and technique, illustrated with numerous musical examples of his own tango-jazz hybrid compositions and other tango and jazz composers. As a bonus, Graciano provides a video tutorial on how to realize a tango lead sheet.

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Tango and jazzimprovisationlead sheet
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 112 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Baker, David. How to Play Bebop. Vol. 1–3. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., 1987.Google Scholar
Baker, David Jazz Improvisation. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co, 1983.Google Scholar
Bergonzi, Jerry. Inside Improvisation Series. Vol. 1–7. Rottenburg: Advance Music, 1994.Google Scholar
Coker, Jerry, Casale, James, Campbell, Gary, and Greene, Jerry. Patterns for Jazz. Miami, FL: Studio P/R, 1970.Google Scholar
Goldstein, Gil. Jazz Composer’s Companion. New York: Consolidated Music Publishers, 1981.Google Scholar
Graciano, Julián. El libro Real del Tango. Vol. 1–6. Buenos Aires: Melos Ediciones Musicales, 2020.Google Scholar
Pease, Ted. Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice. Boston: Berklee Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Rawlins, Robert, and Eddine Bahha, Nor. Jazzology: The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Co., 2005.Google Scholar
Reilly, Jack. The Harmony of Bill Evans. Brooklyn, NY: Unichrom Ltd., 1992–3.Google Scholar
Salgán, Horacio. Curso de Tango. Buenos Aires: Pablo J. Polidoro, 2001. Translated into English by Will Genz and Marisa Hurtado as Tango Course, 2nd ed., 2001.Google Scholar

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