Credits:

Enrique Mono Villegas

Description:

This is a surprise: a collection of Los Hermanos Abalos songs, supposedly released in 1952 by Enrique "Mono" Villegas, a pianist born in Buenos Aires in 1913 and a master of the modern folklore sensibility since the 1950s, has been reissued on Lito Nevia's label Reprinted for the first time in the world by MELOPEA. Enrique "Mono" Villegas was an early Argentine jazz pianist who could play Ravel and Brahms with the swing of a Jelly Roll Morton or Thelonious Monk, and especially interpret Chopin with swing. Mono released several albums for US Columbia after 1956, but this album was released earlier, in 1952. The repertoire of Los Hermanos Avalos, a representative of Argentine folklore, is featured on this album, but the modern arrangement and piano touch are truly brilliant. The modern arrangements and the touch of the piano are truly superb, and should be ranked alongside such masters as Astor Piazzolla and Cuchi Regisamon, and are extremely pioneering in the sense that what Carlos Aguirre and others are attempting today was already practiced more than half a century ago.

Tracklisting:

1.Nostalgias santiaguenas
2.El baquianito
3.Chacarera del Cachimayo
4.Carnavalito quebradeno
5.Presumido
6.Juntito al fogon
7.Zamba de los yuyos
8.El utulita
9.La indecisa
10.Bailecito quenero
11.Alhajita
12.Achalay
13.Zamba de mi pago (ボーナストラック)