Alright ? Who brought the bandeon to the jazz gig?


Is it just me or does it seem like 2010 is the year of the high-profile bandeon on jazz recordings? I understand Wynton is using one on an album, and XM-70 has the Danish Jazz Orchestra in heavy rotation featuring this little sawed-off accordion. I submit, IMHO, that this monstrosity should be banished from anything respectfully calling itself jazz (with the possible exception of weird ECM recordings). Every time I hear one I expect Maurice Chevalier to pop out from behind a tree to start singing... Blech!!!

Or does the rest of the world love this thing?
grimace
Astor Piazolla is from Argentina. If you like Tango try Vayo "Tango", Pan 1000, Pantaleon Records. this is a fantastic tango recording!!! There are three different bandoneon players on the album!!!
looks like a squashed accordion to me.
Anything that can make jazz more ex*iting is fine by me.

* c left out intentionally,lol..........
You mention ECM, and I'll second that--in particular, Dino Saluzzi. Is it jazz? Who knows. I do know that his album with the cellist Anja Lechner--"Ojos Negros"--is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful recordings I own.
I saw Astor Piazolla sometime in the 80s at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Enjoyed the performance very much.
Up to that point I had never experienced anything like it.