3.2K views · 130 reactions | Astor Piazzolla and Gary Burton - Montreux Jazz Festival 1986 Astor Piazzolla and Gary Burton 07-17-1986 Casino Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland | Avant Garde Music | Facebook

53K views · 1.2K reactions | Piazzolla took the music of the great tango masters like Garde, ripped it away from the velvet-walled concert hall and the soft-cushion drawing-room, and slapped it down on the pavement of Buenos Aires. Reviled by the critics, shunned by the conservative government, his music spoke to the next generation, and popular and jazz musicians and listeners all over the world eventually fell under the spell of his "nuevo tango." | Phantom Regiment | Facebook