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Astor Piazzolla is to the tango what Duke Ellington was to jazz. Both composers-bandleaders-instrumentalists managed to transform dance music into high art without ever betraying the vitality of their sources. Released originally in 1986, six years prior to his death, Tango: Zero Hour is Piazzolla's self-acknowledged masterpiece and epitomizes the sophisticated yet earthy "nuevo tango" that revolutionized Argentine music in the 1950s. Hearable as a single mythic night in Buenos Aires, Zero Hour opens with a lunatic chorus, then passes through a thousand moods before reaching its dire conclusion. Piazzolla, who performs on bandoleon (the Argentine accordion) in his New Tango Quintet, merges tango, jazz, and classical music to make music as keenly emotional as it is tightly precise and as improvisatory as it is brooding, sorrowful, and very, very sexy. It doesn't get much better than that. --Richard Gehr
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