Foxtrot in BsAs - a historical question

[opendoor]

What did the people in BsAs dance to that Tango-Fox crossover music of Enrique Rodriguez. Did they care about it anyway? Was there a difference concerning the social background, or the clubs?

Some of his titles

Noches de Hungría http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6aKOocpZNI
Contando las estrellas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86WGOFvB-a0
Mis Harapos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoMWpqfu0Y
Se va el tren http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcX_bPtnWhg
La Colegiala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GozePB7HqE
Japonesita http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUrl8QoSTAc

 

[tangotime]

What did the people in BsAs dance to that Tango-Fox crossover music of Enrique Rodriguez. Did they care about it anyway? Was there a difference concerning the social background, or the clubs?

They sound very much like the Q/Step music of that period ( it was written in 2/4 at that moment )..and maybe somewhat more typical of the Amer.style foxtrot of that same period .

 

[Mladenac]

Japonesita is pasodoble (there was a thread)


Federico & Ines

 

[jantango]

There was a time when the confiterias in the center of Buenos Aires had two orchestras on stage. Fifty percent of the music was tango, and the other fifty percent was jazz. Many of the tango orchestra leaders also formed jazz orchestras. Those who danced during the 1950s are as familiar with American jazz as they are with tango.

Today, you are lucky if the DJ plays one tanda of big band jazz (Glenn Miller, Harry James, Tommy Dorsey) during the night.