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

  • from Part I - Tango Music
  • Edited by Kristin Wendland, Emory University, Atlanta, Kacey Link
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Tango
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 112-130

  • 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.