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I guess it wasn’t just Tanturi, Troilo and Lomuto who were loved by the ladies. To be honest, I know a lot of tangueras who are crazy about Biagi’s irresistible music and it’s no surprise this picture below shows him … Continue reading →

One of the biggest tragedies in tango music is that we don’t have any recorded music of Juan Polito when he was an important orchestra director, in the early 1940s, accompanied by Juan D’Arienzo’s previous musicians and singer Alberto Echagüe. … Continue reading →

Was the reach of tango music limited to two somewhat distant, isolated countries down south, or did it also appeal to wider audiences? We do know that some tango artists managed to pull off tours through a number of Latin … Continue reading →

The following picture shows us a ‘popular’ Roberto Maida (striped suit, tie; standing between two bandoneonists) with his own orchestra, after four years of a (musically) fantastic partnership with Francisco Canaro and a bitter breakup caused by Maida’s jealousy in … Continue reading →

Here’s another rare picture of Rodolfo Biagi, this time with one of his lesser-known singers, Alberto Lago, who left us 4 tangos in 1941 and 1942 for a very enjoyable tanda, and a slow vals.

If someone in the tango world deserves an army of idolaters, it’s Di Sarli with his treasure of beautiful dance recordings. From this picture we may conclude that he indeed had his admirers (and perhaps, Roberto Rufino too), and when … Continue reading →

The following picture shows us José Garcia (centre) with his main singer Alfredo Rojas and the lesser-known Nida Wilson, who also shows up in a few recordings, and who was already featured before here at Tango Archive. I bet this … Continue reading →

Tango wasn’t just hard work and fierce competition, sometimes you also had to celebrate something. This picture shows us a crowded birthday party of Julio de Caro and a few well-known guests, mapped for you on a seperate picture below.

In the present, Firpo is a relatively forgotten orchestra and perhaps even more so in Buenos Aires, but like in several other cases, that doesn’t mean he was unsuccessful in the Buenos Aires tango world at its heyday. Today’s picture … Continue reading →

For musicians, a lot of (hidden) preparation goes into a single performance. This picture shows us the solitary side of a tango director like Troilo, who also had to spend a lot of time composing personal arrangements for existing music … Continue reading →