''Funk Tango'' is an album by the

Paquito D'Rivera Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras (born 4 June 1948), known as Paquito D'Rivera, is a Cuban-American alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He was a member of the Cuban songo band Irakere and, since the 1980s, he has established him ...

Quintet?, released through Sunny Side Records in 2007. In 2008, the album won the group the

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious ...

for Best Latin Jazz Album.

Track listing

# "Pere" (Ed Simon) – 6:35 # "What About That!" (Mark Walker) – 6:56 # "Revirado" (

Astor Piazzolla Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fr ...

) – 5:36 # "Contradanza" (

) – 3:05 # "Milonga 10" (

Fernando Otero Fernando Otero is a Grammy-award-winning Argentine pianist, vocalist, and composer. His first contact with music was receiving vocal lessons from his mother Elsa Marval, an internationally acclaimed singer and actress. He started taking piano le ...

) – 5:17 # "Final Waltz" (Diego Urcola) – 5:27 # "Funk Tango" (Alon Yavnai) – 7:09 # "Mariela's Dream" (Alain Mallet, Oscar Stagnaro) – 6:48 # "La Yumba-Caravan" (

Osvaldo Pugliese Osvaldo Pedro Pugliese (December 2, 1905 – July 25, 1995) was an Argentine tango musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of salon tango but also heralded the development of concert-style ...

, Juan Tizol) – 8:01 # "Como un Bolero" (Paquito D'Rivera) – 4:49 # "Giant Steps" (

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...

) – 5:50

References

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