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Argentine Adventures: Part 1-3
The Anglo-Argentine Jazz Quartet, Live at the Red Rose,
by George Haslam and Friends
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It’s a long way from Preston to Buenos Aires and when the Lancashire-born (in 1939) baritone saxophonist George Haslam first arrived to play in Argentina in 1990, the long wake of the war in the Malvinas was still fierce.
Yet with Haslam’s horn, jazz became an urgent peacemaker and has been ever since with the abiding and deeply creative musical friendships he has formed with some powerfully vibrant Argentinian jazz virtuosi.
Haslam returned in 1991 to play the Mardel Jazz Festival in Buenos Aires, an event remembered as the opening track of the album Argentine Adventures, where he plays a deeply evocative tarogato solo called Tinto Dreams.
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