Jazz Meets World: Duo Ranas
Tuesday 14. 05. 2019, 20:30
The performers
Dúo Ranas ()
Dúo Ranas is an Argentinean duo of musicians Leandro Schnaider and Pablo Schiaffino, originally from Buenos Aires. The roots of Dúo Ranas go back to the year 2005 at the Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires. Of course, the musicians also accompanied the performances of professional tango dancers. This certainly contributed to the perfect rhythmic and dynamic work. They also played together in a larger ensemble in the Orquesta Típica El Afonte. But when the time came to leave the "home" scene and fly around the world, bandoneonist Leandro Schnaider (graduate of the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, sideman of singer Daniel Meling, with whom he also played in Prague) and pianist Pablo Schiaffino (graduate of the Beethoven Conservatory in Buenos Aires, collaborator with Paula Gluzman and the Gabriel Merlino Trio) were perfectly prepared. With their first album, simply called Ranas / Dúo Porteño de Tango, released in 2007, as a representative calling card, they established their international career with intense performances throughout Europe, a concert in South Korea and, of course, concert tours in the American countries. In Uruguay, they not only played, but also found further inspiration. By 2024, the duo had completed three dozen international tours and four albums, with the latest, Tata (2020), considered a breakthrough: "It captures much more of our compositional work, as well as a new approach to Argentine folk music. It captures us in a new situation of life, with children and compositions that come from us and transform us, that live in us beyond time and circumstances".
P&J Music ()
P&J Music organizes concerts of jazz, world music and ethnic music. Since the beginning of its activity, it has been mainly engaged in the distribution of sound recordings, to which in later years was added the production activity for various festivals. To these activities was later added the actual organisation of concerts. Since 1996, P&J Music has organised more than 500 concerts. The concert series [Jazz Meets World](http://www.jmw.cz/) has become the company's flagship project. It is a festival that is a year-round presentation of world jazz music and world music. Concerts organized within the framework of this festival have brought and are bringing to the Czech stages, both in large halls and jazz clubs, performers of world names, as well as young talents who are just beginning their careers.