Atilio Stampone

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Atilio Stampone (born July 1, 1926 ) is an Argentine tango pianist and composer.

Stampone was a student of Pedro Rubione . He gained his first experience as music in the orchestra of his brother Giuseppe ( Pepe el tano tanguero ) and then became a member of the orchestras of Roberto Dimas and Roberto Rufino . In 1946 Astor Piazzolla brought him into his orchestra, to which he belonged until its dissolution in 1948. His next stations were the orchestras of Mariono Mores and Juan Carlos Cobián before he went to Italy in 1950 to study with Carlos Zecchi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia .

After returning to Buenos Aires in 1952, he founded an orchestra with Leopoldo Federico , with whom he recorded an LP with titles such as Criolla linda (by Vicente Gorrese , Bernardo Germino and Luis Rubistein ) and Tierrita (by Agustín Bardi and Jesús Fernández Blanco ). The singer of the recordings was Antonio Rodríguez Lesende . 1955-56 he took on several 78-rpm records with his own orchestra and the singer Héctor Petray .

As a member of Piazzolla's Octeto Buenos Aires, he worked on two LPs (including Tango progresivo ). In 1959 he released a 45-rpm double album with two instrumental and two vocal tracks with the singer Ricardo Ruiz on the Microfon label . He composed the music for the films Un guapo del 900 and La mano en la trampa by Leopoldo Torre Nilson and in 1964 founded the night café Caño 14 with the former soccer player Rinaldo Martino and the actor Pedro Aleandro , which has become a legendary center of tango in Buenos Aires has been.

With the album Concepto , which he presented in the early 1970s, Stampone turned to the avant-garde tango. The musicians of his orchestra here were the violinists Eduardo Walczak and Tito Besprovan , the violist Abraham Selenson , the cellist Enrique Lanoo , the bandoneonist Osvaldo Montes , the guitarist Rubén Ruiz and the double bass player Omar Murtagh .

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SURNAME Stampone, Atilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine tango pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1926