Paolo Picchio Book “Astor Piazzolla, the Father of the Nuevo Tango” Wins Award

January 17th 2025
Accordion Worldwide
Astor Piazzolla book by Paolo Picchio
Astor Piazzolla book

The book “Astor Piazzolla, the Father of the Nuevo Tango” by Paolo Picchio (Italy) has won the “Best Discography” Award for Excellence in research in “Historical Recorded Sound”, awarded by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections based in the USA.

Paolo Picchio was notified by the President of the Awards Committee, Roberta Freund Schwartz.

Picchio would like to thank Antonio Peruch for his “commendable translation which certainly contributes to the diffusion of the book at an international level and for having had the idea of proposing it to the Awards Committee of the ARSC.”

He would also like to “thank the Curci Publishing House who believed in me and in my great passion for Astor Piazzolla and the important people who contributed to the texts of the Preface. Thank you all, the merit for this award also goes to you and obviously to the timeless musical genius of Astor Piazzolla.”