{"id":3377,"date":"2015-05-18T21:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.menteargentina.com\/blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:04:51","slug":"song-of-the-week-oscar-aleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.menteargentina.com\/blog\/song-of-the-week-oscar-aleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the week: Oscar Alem\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscar Alem\u00e1n is a jazz guitarist and composer who was born into a musical family in northern Argentina. \u00a0He was part of a family jazz ensemble at a young age and had the opportunity to travel to Buenos Aires to play at some of the major venues. \u00a0Unfortunately by the age of 10 he was orphaned when his mother passed away and his father committed suicide. \u00a0Subsequently he danced and played music in the street and later in bars and clubs to support himself.<\/p>\n

Alem\u00e1n spent the 1930’s in Europe where he befriended and played with some of the greats in jazz history, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Django Reinhardt. \u00a0In the 1940’s Alem\u00e1n was forced to move back to Argentina at the start of \u00a0World War II. There he further developed his swingin’ style and put out some hits such as this one.<\/p>\n

Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n