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Although rarely seen, some early swing band scores have the piano part marked "Piano/Piano Accordion." It is a traditional instrument in Brazilian music, specifically baião of the northeast. Luiz Gonzaga is called the king of baião. [citation needed] The accordion is featured heavily in traditional Egyptian music, particularly baladi styles.
They brought with them the accordion, polkas music and dance. Their music influenced the Tejanos. Central to the evolution of early Tejano music was the blend of traditional forms such as the corrido and mariachi, and Continental European styles, such as polka introduced by German, Polish, and Czech settlers in the late 19th century. [5]
This is a list of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin.. Note that immigration has affected many styles: e.g. for the South American styles of traditional music, German and Czech immigrants arrived with accordions (usually button boxes) and the new instruments were incorporated into the local traditional music.
Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) [1] is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas.He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music.
However, due to various cultural and socioeconomic developments in the 1900s, norteño musicians began trailblazing the tejano genre as a tangent to conjunto. [2] In the United States and Mexico, a conjunto band is composed of four main instruments: the button accordion, the bajo sexto, an electric bass, and a drum set. They are popular in ...
The most typical accordion is the piano accordion, which is used for many musical genres. Another type of accordion is the button accordion, which is used in musical traditions including Cajun, Conjunto and Tejano music , Swiss and Slovenian-Austro-German Alpine music, and Argentinian tango music.
Gutierrez began playing piano at the age of 15 and was no stranger to music as his older brother Robert was part of the powerhouse tejano band Grupo Estrella. By age 18 he was contributing to albums with A.B. Quintanilla III for artists like Selena, Escalofrio, Los Agues, Imagen Latina, Oxygeno and as part of the group Chikko.
Planet Squeezebox: Accordion Music from Around the World: Ellipsis Arts 3470 1995 "A Mi San Antonio" A Taste of Tex Mex: 40 Tejano Tidbits: Emporio DEMPCD 028 1997 "Pobre Palomita" The Rough Guide to Tex-Mex: World Music Network (UK) RGNET 1037 CD 1999 "Quiereme, Quiereme" Tex Mex Favourites, Vol. 2: Weton-Wesgram (Netherlands) KBOX3235 2000