| Tango: Zero Hour | |
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| Released | September 1986 |
| Recorded | May 1986 Sound Ideas Studio, New York City |
| Genre | Nuevo tango |
| Length | 46:07 |
| Label | American Clavé, Nonesuch |
| Producer | Kip Hanrahan |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  link |
| Robert Christgau | A−[1] |
Tango: Zero Hour (Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero in Spanish) is an album by Ástor Piazzolla and his Quinteto Nuevo Tango (in English: New Tango Quintet, often loosely referred to as his second quintet). It was released in September 1986 on American Clavé, and re-released on Pangaea Records in 1988.[2]
Piazzolla considered this his greatest album.[3][4][5] Rolling Stone commented on the Pangaea reissue of the album, comparing Piazzolla's fusion of form, improvisation, and dynamicstocontemporary classical music, jazz, and rock & roll, respectively.[6] Robert ChristgauofThe Village Voice also commented on Piazzolla's fusion of classical and jazz music.[5]
All tracks written by Astor Piazzolla.
Considered by Piazzolla to be his best work, 1986's Tango Zero Hour was the culmination of a career that began in Argentina in the 1930s.
Astor Piazzolla called his recording Tango: Zero Hour 'absolutely the greatest record I've made in my entire life.'
Piazzolla [...] claims this is the best of his 40 albums. [...] True semipop, dance music for the cerebellum, with the aesthetic tone of a jazz-classical fusion Gunther Schuller never dreamed.
Piazzolla's Argentine 'New Tango' fusion brazenly combines structural ploys from contemporary classical music and the improvisatory daring of jazz, heating the mix with swooping dynamics worthy of rock & roll
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