Emilio Solla

Born in Mendoza, Argentina, and raised in Buenos Aires, Emilio Solla started his classical piano instruction at age eight. The music that Emilio Solla was exposed to at home was mostly Argentine northwest folk music. Solla’s parents were acquaintances with many of the most popular musicians in that field, such as Jaime Torres and Hugo Diaz. As Solla heard Piazzolla for the first time, tango music made a strong impression on him, and so happened with jazz as well. In the early years, he also devoted much time to studying composing and arranging both styles of music.

All of these influences are very much present in Solla's music, whose personal approach and strong melodic ideas makes him one of the most outstanding artists in what has been called "tango-jazz" music. With five CDs as a band leader and many more as sideman, Solla has played all around
Europe, Japan and the US. His collaborations as composer and arranger include Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Big Band, Pablo Aslan's Avantango and many others. He moved to Barcelona in 1996, and to New York in 2006, where he is currently playing with his New York Tango Jazz Project to acclaimed reviews.

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