LOS ANGELES (JTA) – The music that packs the Skirball Cultural Center’s stately courtyard – Yiddish tango – is a hybrid twice over. On the tango side, it is a blend of African-born rhythms and a ...

(JTA) — The music that packs the Skirball Cultural Center’s stately courtyard – Yiddish tango – is a musical hybrid twice over. On the tango side, it is a blend of African-born rhythms and a potpourri ...

Jazz Tango—winner of the 2018 Grammy for "Best Latin Jazz Album"—is a distillation of pianist Pablo Ziegler's vision. Leading a trio of American-based Argentinians, Ziegler delivers a program that ...

Tango music has influenced many nations as it travels around the world. Tango My Passion, an episode of the Musical Discoveries series produced by Dr. Monika Krajewska, is a short documentary tracing ...

In the waning years of the tango’s “golden age,” which spanned the 1930s to the mid-1950s, the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) began writing irresistible music that melded elements of ...

If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it to live music. In western Massachusetts? No so much. Now, though, Western Mass Tango, which has ...

For most people, tango evokes a passionate dance form. For Argentine-born Gustavo Bulgach, tango is music with an attitude. “Tango means the blues. Tango is not just tango - it means - it’s an ...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...

Organising tango music concerts in Hong Kong is no mean feat – local musician and impresario Justin Siu can attest to that. But following last November’s well-received Tango Apasionado show at the ...