Emilio Solla is Sunday by the Grammy with "Second Half"

Years ago the tango music was considered an elderly, very nostalgic people, young did not pay attention or too little.
Whoever starts to turn around this situation is the legendary Astor Piazzolla, who manages to link captivating way tango with jazz, beginning a movement that would reach merits at all levels and worldwide.
Today the Tango Jazz, Latin Jazz subgenre has fans of all ages worldwide. Now not only the interest for the Tango Jazz lies not only in hearing the exquisite music, but dance.
This great movement has greats like Pablo Ziegler, Gustavo Firmenich, Julio Botti, Pablo Aslan, among others, but at this time the attention is focused on Emilio Solla and The Brooklyn Unstable who with his Album "Second Half" searches the next days the "Best Latin Jazz Album" award at the Grammys.
The compositions and arrangements deserve recognition, a single composition is not Solla, but also its special arrangement, from there his talent and creativity.
This next Sunday February 8th will be the awards ceremony Grammy and Emilio Solla sounds like great candidate to win the coveted prize, the more value though nowadays the Jazz Latino has reached high levels of popularity in the balloon and its performers have grown in number and quality.
Let's look at this video that shows us the diligent work for "Second Half":



Notes on Emilio Solla:

Emilio Solla got his degree in Classical Piano from the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires in 1986. He studied composition, arranging, counterpoint, improvisation and conducting in Buenos Aires, Barcelona and New York with teachers such as Susana Kasakoff, Gabriel Senanes, Miquel Ortega and Bruce Barth.

His former works cover a wide range of styles, from traditional Argentinean tango to classical, from rock to jazz, from theatre to dance, and include many recordings and concerts (in many occasions as arranger and musical director) in Latin America with a large number of well-known tango, pop and jazz singers, such as Jorge Sobral (first Piazzolla's singer), Cecilia Rossetto, Miguel Cantilo and Alejandra Martin to name just a few.

In 1983 he started to compose and play his own music, a fusion of modern Argentine tango and folklore with jazz and other contemporary music styles. His first band, Apertura, was praised by Astor Piazzolla as one of the most interesting new sounds in the Buenos Aires scene. Nowadays, with six CDs as band leader for the prestigious Fresh Sound Records label and concerts all around Europe, Japan, and the US, he is considered one of the most outstanding and personal voices in this musical stream (generally referred to as “tango-jazz"). 

Solla moved to Barcelona in 1996, and to New York in 2006, always in search of personal and artistic growth. Since in New York, he has composed, arranged for and performed with Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo O'Farrill's Latin Big Band and Pablo Aslan's Avantango, among others, besides performing with his NY Tango Jazz Cabal in some of the main venues in town, like the Jazz Standard, Smalls or Dizzy's, featuring Chris Cheek, Victor Prieto, Jorge Roeder and Richie Barshay. This quintet is releasing its first CD, Bien Sur! (Fresh Sound, 2009), with special guest Billy Hart. He continues to tour Europe twice a year with Emilio Solla & Afines, his Barcelona's based quintet, while working as a free-lance arranger and pianist in different projects in NY.

¡¡Viva The Latin Jazz!!

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