Carla Campopiano Trio

Carla Campopiano Trio: Chicago/Buenos Aires Connections

by Chris Mosey
December 15, 2018

Just as jazz was born in the brothels of New Orleans, tango was first played in disreputable dives along the banks of the River Plate (Rio de Plata), which forms the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. It was a heady mix of the German waltz, the Czech polka, the Polish mazurka, the Bohemian schottische, the Spanish-Cuban habanera, the African candombe and the Argentinian milonga. Like jazz, as it developed, its direction of travel was northwards. Finally, ...