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Dino Saluzzi & Anja Lechner at The Americas Society
by Budd Kopman
Dino Saluzzi & Anja LechnerThe Americas SocietyNew York, NYSaturday April 14, 2007 5:30-7:00 PM “The Americas Society promotes the understanding of the political, economic, and cultural issues that define and challenge the Americas today, from the Arctic Circle to the southernmost tip of Argentina" (from the website). A fortuitous convergence of events led to a reception for Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner coordinated by ECM Records, the Society and Merkin Concert Hall.
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by Dan McClenaghan
Call this music tango if you must--and the title track of the Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner set, Ojos Negros, is a tango tune from the pen of Vincente Greco. But this duet set, Saluzzi's bandoneon in a fluid, airy dance with Anja Lecher's cello, might better be categorized as “just music."The two instruments, individually, make some of the most beautiful sounds. This marriage--the interplay and blending on this South American-European hybrid (if we must categorize)--elevates the proceedings to a ...
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by Budd Kopman
What is beauty? What does it mean to feel, to remember, to laugh or to cry? How can music sound both created beforehand and recreated each second? Is music a direct connection to the infinite, to our very ground of being, so we can see into the musician's soul? These and many, many more questions are raised by Ojos Negros, the astonishing record by bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner. Saluzzi's Juan Condori (ECM, 2006) was ...
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by John Kelman
The late Astor Piazolla was undeniably responsible for bringing visibility to the bandoneon and widespread acclaim to the tango form. Over the course of the past quarter century, however, it's been Piazolla's fellow countryman Dino Saluzzi who has directed the instrument towards paths unseen. Over the course of nine ECM releases Saluzzi has explored the instrument's potential as an expansive improvisational instrument in variety of orthodox and unorthodox instrumental groupings. While not based in improvisation, one of ...
Continue ReadingDino Saluzzi Group: Juan Condori
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non cessa di affascinare l’ormai settantaduenne maestro argentino del bandoneon, Dino Saluzzi, che ormai da venticinque anni propone originalissimi lavori per l’etichetta ECM. In questo Juan Condori lo troviamo nuovamente alla testa della “Saluzzi family”, il gruppo con il quale si sente più a suo agio nel mettere in scena una musica del tutto particolare, propria, radicata nelle tradizioni contadine dell’interno dell’Argentina, lontana dalla più popolare tradizione del tango. Ma, un po’ a sorpresa, come “adozione” della famiglia troviamo anche ...
Continue ReadingDino Saluzzi Group: Juan Condori
by Budd Kopman
Juan Condori is one of most heartfelt and deeply moving releases you will come across. It is about remembrance--of childhood, people and place, of things lost and regained, of relationships, of a life lived fully, with intent. It actually does not matter what label you give this music, but if you must, let it be Argentinian folk jazz. Actually beyond category, and to these ears beyond words, the tunes on Juan Condori have a deceptive simplicity that ...
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by Robert R. Calder
Juan Condori is useful if you want to find out how Dino Saluzzi, born 1935, a slightly younger veteran bandoneonist, sounds relative to Astor Piazzolla--not only is the setting comparable, but the music made by this family group is well worth hearing anyway. Saluzzi has the more lyrical turn of phrase, and the band has a more flexible rhythmic profile, performing the same kind of music as Piazzolla's, but with a clarinet doubling the saxophone, rather than a violin. There ...
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