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Tango Masters: Carlos Di Sarli
Tango Masters: Carlos Di Sarli is a book by Michael Lavocah, published by milonga press, covering Carlos Di Sarli's sextet and his orchestra. The copyright page records a first edition in 2018 and a revision in 2023 (ISBN 978-1-9997551-1-9). The publisher presents it as the third volume of the Tango Masters series, with a release date of 27 May 2018.
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Contents
A prologue of two chapters precedes Part 1, The Sextet (1928–1935), and Part 2, The Orchestra (1938–1959). Part 2's chapters run in date order and end with Di Sarli in ten tangos. Part 3, The man & the myth, covers his early years and his views on tango. The appendices cover Di Sarli on disc, a discography, the orchestra formations and carnival appearances, followed by a bibliography, a glossary, a note on terminology and structure, and an index of titles.
Contents, pp. viii–ix
Discography
Appendix B is divided by period and label: sextet recordings on RCA-Victor (1928–1931); recordings backing Mercedes Carné on Brunswick (1931–1932); orchestra recordings on RCA-Victor (1939–1948); Music Hall recordings dated 1951–1954; RCA-Victor (1954–1958); and Philips (1958). The book treats the Music Hall dates as uncertain. It notes that the exact dates published by Akihito Baba on CTA reissues are of unknown origin and conflict with the Boletín Oficial. Appendix A gives a curated selection of CDs.
Appendix B, pp. 226–237 · Music Hall date note, p. 234
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- Kind
- Book
- Author
- Michael Lavocah
- Publisher
- milonga press
- Edition
- Revised 2023
- ISBN
- 9781999755119
- Language
- en
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