Tango and Jazz -Partners or Rivals?

As Tango fans we have probably noticed that some Tango bands recorded Foxtrot and if we have travelled to Buenos Aires we would have noticed perhaps that some milongas play ‘jazz’ as cortinas, why, how and when Jazz encountered the Tango or was the Tango that encountered Jazz? Jazz and Tango – partners or rivals? Read the full article: From the First World War onwards both tango and jazz were globalized by the entertainment and record industry. In North America the bourgeoisie of New York sought an appropriate cultural repertoire turning to European aristocratic culture. In that context, the fashion of tango arrived in the United States in the early years of the twentieth century again based on the European cultural model. It is around this time that Broadway became the centre of New York’s nightlife, entertainment entrepreneurs emerged who quickly became cultural mediators, trading with the new leisure industry.