Tango: Zero Hour

Tango: Zero Hour
Studio album by Ástor Piazzolla
Released September 1986
Recorded May 1986
Sound Ideas Studio, New York City
Genre Nuevo tango
Length 46:07
Label American Clavé, Nonesuch
Producer Kip Hanrahan
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Robert ChristgauA–[1]

Tango: Zero Hour (Nuevo Tango: Hora Cero in Spanish [often erroneously Hora Zero]) is an album by Ástor Piazzolla and his Quinteto Nuevo Tango (in English: New Tango Quintet, often loosely referred to as his second quintet). It was released in September 1986 on American Clavé, and re-released on Pangaea Records in 1988.[2]

Piazzolla considered this his greatest album.[3][4][5] Rolling Stone commented on the Pangaea reissue of the album, comparing Piazzolla's fusion of form, improvisation, and dynamics to contemporary classical music, jazz, and rock & roll, respectively.[6] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice also commented on Piazzolla's fusion of classical and jazz music.[5]

Track listing

Musicians[7]

Technical personnel

References

  1. Christgau, Robert (June 2, 1987). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
  2. Azzi, María Susana; Collier, Simon (2000). Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-512777-5. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
  3. Cook, Stephen. "Tango: Zero Hour". Allmusic. Macrovision. Retrieved 12 May 2009. Considered by Piazzolla to be his best work, 1986's Tango Zero Hour was the culmination of a career that began in Argentina in the 1930s.
  4. "Tango: Zero Hour". Nonesuch Records. Retrieved 12 May 2009. Astor Piazzolla called his recording Tango: Zero Hour 'absolutely the greatest record I've made in my entire life.'
  5. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (2 June 1987). "Christgau's Consumer Guide: June 2, 1987". The Village Voice. ISSN 0042-6180. Retrieved 12 May 2009. Piazzolla [...] claims this is the best of his 40 albums. [...] True semipop, dance music for the cerebellum, with the aesthetic tone of a jazz-classical fusion Gunther Schuller never dreamed.
  6. Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. ISSN 0035-791X. Piazzolla's Argentine 'New Tango' fusion brazenly combines structural ploys from contemporary classical music and the improvisatory daring of jazz, heating the mix with swooping dynamics worthy of rock & roll Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "Tango: Zero Hour – Credits". Allmusic. Macrovision. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
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