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Pipi Piazzolla: Argentina's Rhythm Shark
by Eric Benson
Ask the Argentine drummer Daniel 'Pipi' Piazzolla about the role of claves in his music and you shouldn't expect an answer so much as an exuberant lesson. Piazzolla, the leader of the celebrated Buenos Aires-based sextet Escalandrum, loves claves--the way they naturalize" complex time signatures; the infinite rhythmic possibilities they present; the mathematical derring-do of fitting the square-peg of a clave inside the round-hole of a given meter.I lived in Los Angeles for a year," Piazzolla tells me ...
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Pipi Piazzolla is the leader of the band Escalandrúm, a damn fine drummer, and probably the most omnipresent musician on the Buenos Aires scene. Want to find Pipi? Go to Thelonious and he'll probably being playing, regardless of which band is on stage. Eric Benson: Escalandrúm changed its sound in the early 2000s. What was the change? And why did you decide to undertake it? Pipi Piazzolla: I'd been playing with Guillermo Klein for two years, and we'd been making ...
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Pipi Piazzolla: How the Crisis Changed Argentine Jazz
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
A lot of Argentine jazz musicians have told me about the profound effect the economic crisis of 2001-2002 had on their lives. Pipi Piazzolla, however, was the man who seemed to most fully grasp the crisis's economic and cultural impact. After hearing Piazzolla allude to the legacy of the crisis during one of Escalandrúm's shows, I asked him to more fully unpack the history for me. EB: How did the economic crisis change the Buenos Aires jazz scene? PP: Before ...
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