The artwork for this release leads the listener to expect a tango album of some sort, which this set of contemporary compositions for alto saxophone and piano or electronic accompaniment mostly is not. The only actual tango on hand is Astor Piazzolla's gloriously elegiac Adiós Nonino, in an arrangement by saxophonist Todd Oxford, and indeed it does work beautifully on the saxophone, which has the same combination of passion and grit as Piazzolla's bandoneón. Instead, Oxford offers something rarer than a tango album: a ...
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The artwork for this release leads the listener to expect a tango album of some sort, which this set of contemporary compositions for alto saxophone and piano or electronic accompaniment mostly is not. The only actual tango on hand is Astor Piazzolla's gloriously elegiac Adiós Nonino, in an arrangement by saxophonist Todd Oxford, and indeed it does work beautifully on the saxophone, which has the same combination of passion and grit as Piazzolla's bandoneón. Instead, Oxford offers something rarer than a tango album: a program that circles loosely around the ideas of the tango, dance, Latin America, nightlife, and the meeting of classical and vernacular traditions. The opening Tango Magnetism of Daniel Gutwein hints of the tango as "a metaphor for other male-female relationships in which passions are contained not only by the conventions and formal restraints of society, but by their own fears of chaos," put it that way and the music's rather abstract patterns make sense. John Williams' Catch Me If You...
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Add this copy of Todd Oxford: Tango Magnetism to cart. $30.06, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Equilibrium Records.
