Tango negro

Juan Carlos Cáceres · 2001 · Candombe on the African roots of tango, album Tocá Tangó

Context

Composition in the form of a candombe from Tocá Tangó (2001), an album in which Juan Carlos Cáceres, based in Paris since the late 1960s, explores the African origins of tango and its links with murga and candombe. A former jazz trombonist in Buenos Aires, he sings and plays piano on it.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Tango nuevo. Among the origins and influences of Tango nuevo: Third stream, Cool (Birth of the Cool).

Sources

• EN: Juan Carlos Cáceres

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