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“Nuevo Tango”Pablo Ziegler TrioSunday, October 29 • 2:00pmFlorence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor
"...(U)niversal as New Tango has become, there exists one authentic Piazzolla style, and one musician better than any other embodies it now. Pianist Pablo Ziegler, a member of Piazzolla's quintet in the '80s, is the reigning New Tango master." — Los Angeles Times Program NotesMaking his festival debut, Argentina’s Pablo Ziegler first gained international notoriety through his collaboration with the great Astor Piazzolla, whose name will forever be synonymous with Nuevo Tango. As the man who “brought the polyphony, dissonance, and large scale structures of classical music into tango” (The New York Times) Piazzolla was both the inventor and exemplar of the Argentinean form.
Ziegler makes a captivating case for the continued vitality of the music in the post-Piazzolla era. A graduate of the Buenos Aires Music Conservatory, Ziegler was already well known for his trio, or terceta, which set classical themes to jazz arrangements, when Piazzolla asked him to join the New Tango Quintet. Ziegler stayed with the group for over a decade, contributing to landmark recordings like Tango: Zero Hour. Following Piazzolla’s death, he formed the Quintet for New Tango, but Ziegler’s interest in smaller groups found him returning to the trio format of his early days. Playing without a drummer, the musicians find their rhythms in guitar tops, pizzicato piano strings and the huff of the traditional accordion-like bandoneón.
Where Piazzolla’s music evoked a refined, structured classicism, Ziegler opens the Nuevo Tango up to further improvisation without losing the on-a-peso rhythmic shifts and romantic lyricism that are its forte. On his latest album, Bajo Cero (a Latin Grammy winner for “Best Tango Album”) Ziegler delivers a fresh vision of Nuevo Tango for the 21st century.
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