Summit (Album)

Occupation

  • Baritone Saxophone: Gerry Mulligan
  • Bandoneon: Astor Piazzolla
  • Piano, Organ, Fender Rhodes: Angel Pocho Gatti
  • Guitar: Filippo Daccò
  • Guitar: Bruno De Filippi
  • Bass Guitar: Giuseppe Prestipino ( Pino Presti )
  • Drums, percussion: Tullio De Piscopo
  • Marimba: Alberto Baldan
  • Marimba: Gianni Zilioli
  • Violin: Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli
  • Viola: Renato Riccio
  • Cello: Ennio Miori
  • Plus string ensemble led by Astor Piazzola

Summit was the joint project of Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan. Originally released in Europe as Tango Nuevo 's work also appeared under the name Reunion Cumbre and 1974.

" Since 1940 until today I had the most horrible problems, only because of a folk music called tango ... "

Astor Piazzolla

Piazzolla, who is regarded as the great innovator of Tango Argentino today, learned during his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1954 Gerry Mulligan know, who had traveled with his octet to the Salon du Jazz Festival. The ideas and suggestions that emerged in their first joint appearance, the two should, however, only in 1974 can convert the music at the festival Rassegna International in Venice and the shared disk Summit. By stimulating Boulanger Piazzolla had in the intervening period found its identity in Tango Argentino (and not in European styles ) - and had begun to renew it fundamentally. The published in Europe under the name Tango Nuevo album gave the music of Piazzolla and his followers the name, even if the music, the mood is largely influenced by Mulligans expressive baritone saxophone, stylistically more like the Jazz must be assigned as the Tango Argentino. Public, press, musicians and dancers from the area of ​​Tango Argentino were split and Piazzolla's international breakthrough as one of the great composers of the Tango Argentino should only several years later succeed (at the time of the military dictatorship in Argentina ).

Piazzolla and Mulligan met in the fall of 1974 in Milan to record with an Italian studio ensemble the plate. They were for from 24 to 26 September and from 1 to 4 October 1974 at the recording studio, where Tonino Paolillo served as sound engineer. In between, they played with a smaller orchestra in Venice, where the composition " Close Your Eyes " was recorded and broadcast on Italian television on September 28.

Title list

With the exception of Aire De Buenos Aires, which contributed Mulligan, come all compositions by Piazzolla, who also wrote all the arrangements.

Effect

The Italian newspaper La Opinion already wrote on December 24, 1974:

"Summit " ... is not only the most wonderful or a Mulligan already long overdue album. It is also a confirmation that Piazzolla continues, in what context or what city Anyway, a creator of incorruptible personality to be. The shameful thing is that he can not in his own homeland that.

The album, which as Tango Nuevo by WEA Records came on the Atlantic label in 1975 in Central European record stores, was also soon to be a sales success even beyond the actual jazz and tango circles; it contributed to the popularization of tango nuevo. It has lost none of its magic peculiar fascination to this day and has been repeatedly republished under different titles. It is considered a timeless classic.

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