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Oscar Alemán

Oscar Alemán: Argentine gypsy-jazz guitarist Alemán built a career in Europe, was thrown out of occupied Paris by the Germans, and made it back home to Argentina, where he kept recording. and Alemán, an Argentine black jazz guitarist who later played alongside Django Reinhardt in Paris, formed a guitar duo in 1927 with a Brazilian, Gastão Bueno Lobo, which they called 'the Wolves'; Victor then added Vardaro to make the Trío Victor.††

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Guitarra que llora — composed by Oscar Alemán

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Argentine gypsy-jazz guitarist Alemán built a career in Europe, was thrown out of occupied Paris by the Germans, and made it back home to Argentina, where he kept recording.

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Alemán, an Argentine black jazz guitarist who later played alongside Django Reinhardt in Paris, formed a guitar duo in 1927 with a Brazilian, Gastão Bueno Lobo, which they called 'the Wolves'; Victor then added Vardaro to make the Trío Victor.

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