For musicians and aficionados of Argentine tango, the scale and scope of the Astor Piazzolla collection at UC Santa Barbara is staggering. Thousands of pages of the composer’s original sheet music.

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, only child of Vicente “Nonino” Piazzolla and Asunta Mainetti. In 1925, the family relocates to New York City until ...

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 ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In celebration of Astor Piazzolla's 100th birthday, the Latin Grammy-winning Quinteto Astor Piazzolla will pay tribute to the man who revolutionized tango music forever. Kravis ...

There's an Argentine proverb that says, "Everything changes except the tango." That was true — until Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the genre. Rarely is the name of a composer and musician so closely ...

These five exceptional artists -- Pablo Mainetti (bandoneon), Bárbara Varassi Pega (piano), Serdar Geldymuradov (violin), Armando de la Vega (guitar), Daniel Falasca (double bass) and Julián Vat ...

Lesley Karsten, accompanied by a live band, plays Piazzolla: "He challenged all the rules. Well, why can't I challenge the rules?" she says. By Judy Cantor-Navas The story of the great nuevo tango ...

When he died in 1992, Astor Piazzolla left a huge legacy of studio and live records, but it was a decade until his reputation began to grow internationally. The series of Piazzolla discs begun in 1996 ...

Always shaking, never stirred, Parma Recordings CEO Bob Lord has added yet another new, ambitious undertaking to his plate in the form of an online musical competition which is dubbed the Piazzolla ...

Danish accordionist Bjarke Mogensen pays tribute to the music of Astor Piazzolla in his new Album for Astor. Joined by harmonica player Mathias Heise, vibraphone player Johan Bridger and the Danish ...